Tim
I believe there was a proposal in Decenber 2001 for the potential new
nations to have representatives within the EU Commision Article 29 Group
excluding voting rights. So Data Protection issues will not be that new to
new states joining. See :
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2001/wp52en.pdf
David Wyatt
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From: "Tim Trent" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [data-protection] May the 1st is going to be interesting!
> <http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/candidate.htm>
> http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/candidate.htm has the list of
> candidate countries for the EEC, not all, presumably, for 1 May 2004,
since
> the talk is of 10 nations (Or did I miss something?). Assuming all the
> politics falls into place, on May 1st Data Protection expands, covering
> almost double the previous number of nations. According to the EFTA site
28
> nations will be included in the EEA (similar and planned simultaneous
> expansion of EEC and EEA).
>
> Data Protection is relatively small beer compared with the other huge
> legislative issues in adding these nations to the EEC.
>
> We have some initial thoughts.
> http://www.marketimprove.com/hotnews/EEC_Expansion.html carries an initial
> look at the issues. It may well be that the transition arrangements allow
> this work to proceed more slowly, but we feel that wise corporations and
> wise government organisations who reach across national boundaries should
> reserve time to look at these areas now.
>
> So, good luck to us all! Depending in implementation speed this is
> potentially the biggest thing to hit Data Protection since the laws were
> first drafted.
>
> Now, if it happened on May the 4th, then Star Wars fans could offer a
toast,
> too!
>
>
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