The regulation on the processing and free movement of personal data of natural persons has been published in the EU Journal
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The regulation officially enters into force on twentieth day after publication nella Gazzetta ufficiale dell’Unione europea, data che si identifica nel prossimo May 24, while discipline will find fully applicable from 25 May 2018.
The new legislation is mandatory in all its elements e directly applicable in each of the Member States which will have two years to adapt to the new provisions.
La diretta applicabilità del Regolamento ha l’effetto di rendere automaticamente obsolete le normative interne ad essa incompatibili: per questo motivo nel nostro paese il Privacy Guarantor is already working for one compatibility check of the new regulation with the privacy code (Legislative Decree 196/2003) which risks being almost totally replaced by supranational regulations.
The rules completely rewrites the regulation of privacy at European level: i 99 articoli toccano temi come il diritto d’accesso, rettifica e cancellazione (c.d. diritto all’oblio) dei dati personali, nonché la sicurezza degli stessi che va correlata con il diritto alla riservatezza e con il dovere di trasparenza delle autorità competenti.
The document highlights that the rapidità dell’evoluzione tecnologica e la globalizzazione bring new challenges for the protection of personal data, the sharing and collection of which has increased significantly.
Such evolution requires a framework more solid and coherent in materia di protezione dei dati nell’Unione, affiancato da efficaci misure di attuazione, data l’importanza di 
Therefore, they represent the EU bodies, natural persons should have the data control personal that concern them and that the legal certainty and operational is strengthened both for natural persons and for economic operators and public authorities.
The legislation is therefore intended to ensure un’applicazione coerente e omogenea of the rules for the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms delle persone fisiche con riguardo al trattamento dei dati personali in tutta l’Unione.
Per quanto riguarda il trattamento dei dati personali per l’adempimento di un obbligo legale, per l’esecuzione di un compito di interesse pubblico o connesso all’esercizio di pubblici poteri di cui è investito il titolare del trattamento, il Regolamento precisa che gli Stati membri dovrebbero rimanere free to maintain or introduce national standards al fine di specificare ulteriormente l’applicazione delle norme del regolamento.
In fact, European legislation also provides for a certain margin of maneuver for the Member States to specify the rules, also with regard to the treatment of particular categories of personal data (sensitive data): in this sense, the regulation does not exclude that the law of the Member States establishes the conditions for specific treatment situations, also by determining more precisely the conditions under which the processing of personal data is lawful.
di Lucia Izzo – 04/05/2016 – Studio Cataldi
Related news: RREGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 concerning the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, as well as the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (general data protection regulation)
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