Czech Republic
Czech Republic Introduction
2.1 Overview of principal legislation the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (“GDPR”); the Act no. 110/2019 Coll., on the Processing of Personal Data, as amended (this act implements the GDPR in the Czech Republic). 2.2 Additional or ancillary regulation, directives or norms the Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code, as amended (with general rules on privacy in section 84 and following); the Act No. 262/2006 Coll., Labour Code, as amended (it stipulates some rules on privacy in employment, namely in section 316 of the Labour Code); Governing Data Protection Legislation
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Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is the EU regulation which is directly applicable in all member states of the EU, including the Czech Republic, as of 25 May 2018. The new Czech Act No. 110/2019 Coll., on Processing of Personal Data, which partly implements the GDPR in the Czech Republic, is effective as of 24 April 2019. The Act on Processing of Personal Data replaced the previous Act No. 101/2000 Coll., on Protection of Personal Data, as amended. Among other things, this new act regulates jurisdiction of the Office for Personal Data Protection as the main data protection authority in the Czech Republic. The other laws briefly described below contain special rules for specific areas which apply together with or beside the general rules on personal data protection and processing. (Regulation
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