3. Statement by the Secretariat

Mr Philippe Boillat, Director General, Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law

4. Modernisation of Convention 108

Scientific expert: Ms. Cécile de Terwangne, Professor Law Faculty, Namur University (FUNDP), CRIDS Research Director, Namur, Belgium

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat and will examine the draft Explanatory Report of the modernised version of Convention 108.

Draft Protocol amending the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (ETS No. 108)

Consolidated text of the modernised version of Convention 108 with reservations New! 18 06 2015

• Information document

Draft Explanatory Report of the modernised version of Convention 108 – revised version New! 26 06 2015

• Draft Explanatory Report

Information elements on the evaluation and follow-up mechanism

Structure of the questionnaire of the evaluation and follow-up mechanism

5. State of Play – Accession

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat.

• Convention 108: chart of signatures and ratifications
• Additional Protocol: chart of signatures and ratifications

6. Elections

• Required action: The Committee will proceed to the election of one Bureau member and to the election of the Data Protection Commissioner.

Election of the Council of Europe Data Protection Commissioner

7. Data protection and police

Experts:

• Mr Ed Beaman, Senior Lecturer, School of Forensic & Investigative Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
• Ms. Marie Georges, Council of Europe independent expert, Paris, France 
• Mr Douwe Korff, Emeritus Professor of International Law, London Metropolitan University, Associate, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information presented by the Expert on the basis of the draft report and will hold an exchange of views.

Recommendation No. R (87)15 – “Twenty-five years down the line: Final Report (by Mr Cannataci)

Passenger Name Records, data mining & data protection: the need for strong safeguards

Draft report for the Council of Europe by Mr Douwe Korff and Ms. Marie Georges New! 16 06 2015

8. Protection of medical data

Expert: Ms. Jeanne Bossi Malafosse, Counsel, DLA Piper France LLP, Paris, France

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information presented by the Expert on the basis of the draft report and will hold an exchange of views.

9. Automatic exchanges of personal data

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided and will discuss the follow-up.

• OCDE Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information BACKGROUND INFORMATION BRIEF (New! 29 06 2015)
• OCDE Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters (Publication that contains the text of the Model Competent Authority Agreement and the Common Reporting Standard, and the Commentaries thereon, as they read on 15 July 2014) (New! 29 06 2015)

Statement of the WP29 of 4 February 2015 on automatic inter-state exchanges of personal data for tax purposes

• Statement of the WP29

Directive 2014/107/UE of the Council of 9 December 2014 amending Directive 2011/16/EU as regards mandatory automatic exchange of information in the field of taxation

10. Big data

Scientific expert: Dr Antoinette Rouvroy, Permanent research fellow, Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS), Research Centre Information, Law & Society (CRIDS), University of Namur, Belgium

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information presented by the Expert on the basis of the draft preliminary report and will hold an exchange of views.

11. ICANN

Scientific Expert: Ms. Monika Zalnieriute, Fellow at the Centre for Internet & Human Rights European University Viadrina, Germany

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Expert and will discuss the follow-up.

ICANN’s procedures and policies in the light of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratic values

• Report

12. Cooperation with other Council of Europe Bodies

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided, will decide on the follow up and will examine the draft opinion on Recommendation No. R 2067 (2015) – “Mass surveillance”.

•  PACE
  • Draft opinion on the Recommendation No. R 2067 (2015) 
  • Resolution – “Mass surveillance” 
  • Recommendation No. R 2067 (2015) – “Mass surveillance” 
  • Report on mass surveillance by by Peter Omtzigt
• Steering Committee on Media and Information Society (CDMSI)
  • Draft Recommendation CM/Rec(2015) of the Committee of Ministers to member States on protecting and promoting the right to freedom of expression and the right to private life with regard to network neutrality
  • Draft Recommendation on internet freedom 
  • Draft Report on assembly and association
• Cybercrime Committee (T-CY)
  • Criminal justice access to data in the cloud: challenges - Discussion paper prepared by the T-CY Cloud Evidence Group (New! 11 06 2015)
  • Response of the Secretary of the T-CY to the letter of the Chair of the T-PD and Article 29 WP sent to the T-CY in relation to the scenarios on transborder access to personal data
  • Letter of the Chair of the T-PD and Article 29 WP sent to the T-CY in relation to the scenarios on transborder access to personal data
  • Transborder access to data and jurisdiction: Options for further action by the T-CY (Including draft Guidance Note on Article 32 and draft Terms of Reference of a “Cloud evidence group”)
  • Octopus conference 2015 (17-19 June)
• Bioethics Committee (DH-Bio)
  • Information note of the DH-Bio Secretariat
• CODEXTER
  • Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
  • Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Issue paper: Democratic and effective oversight of national security services
  • Issue paper: The rule of law on the Internet and in the wider digital world

13. Opinions

Required action: The Committee will examine the draft opinion submitted for adoption and will take note of the compilation of opinions.

Draft opinion on the Recommendation No. R 2067 (2015) (see item 12 for relevant documents)

14. Cooperation Projects

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat.

15. Work programme 2016-2017

Required action: The Committee will examine the draft work programme for 2016-2017 and finalise it.

Draft Work programme 2016-2017 New! 29 06 2015

16. Focus session: Profiling in the context of fight against terrorism

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the expert and will hold an exchange of views on the issue of profiling in the context of counterterrorism.

Expert: Ms. Sadhbh McCarthy, Co-founder & Director of the Centre for Irish and European Security

17. Overview of activities and major developments in the field of data protection since the last plenary meeting

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information presented and will hold an exchange of views.

Resolution of the European Conference of Data Protection Authorities, 18-20 May 2015 – Manchester, United Kingdom 
(New! 29 06 2015)

• Resolution: ‘Cooperation between data protection authorities’

Resolution of the European Conference of Data Protection Authorities, 18-20 May 2015 – Manchester, United Kingdom (New! 11 06 2015)

• Resolution: ‘Meeting data protection expectations in the digital future’

GPEN

18. Data Protection Commissioner

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Council of Europe Data Protection Commissioner.

• Secretary General’s Regulation
• Activity report 2011-2014 and interim

19. Observers

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the observers.

20. International Privacy Law Library

Expert: Mr. Graham Greenleaf, Co-Director and Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Expert.

• The WorldLII International Privacy Law Library

21. Data Protection Day

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat

22. Next meetings

Required action: The Committee will take note of the proposed dates for the next meetings of the Bureau and for the plenary meeting of the T-PD in 2016.