Data Portectio in Europe

Table of Contents

1. Introduction..........................................................................................................................3 2. Data Protection by the OECD and the Council of Europe...............................................4 2.1. Guidelines of Data Protection by the OECD...........................................................4 2.2. Convention of Data Protection by the Council of Europe.......................................4 3. Guideline of Data Protection in the European Union.......................................................6 3.1. History and Contents of the guideline......................................................................6 3.2. Valuation of the Guideline of Data protection.........................................................7 3.3. How the guideline is converted into National Law..................................................8 4. Cooperation with Eastern European Countries..............................................................11 5. Cooperation with the G7....................................................................................................11 5.1. Positive developments............................................................................................11 5.2. Implementation in the G7.......................................................................................12 6. Data Protection in the Schengen Information System (SIS) and at Europol................13 6.1. The SIS...................................................................................................................13 6.2. Europol...................................................................................................................14 6.3. Evaluation of the SIS..............................................................................................15 6.4. Evaluation of Europol............................................................................................16 7. Future...