{"id":20343,"date":"2023-01-30T16:48:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apdp-mc-stage.jupiter.cdigital.fr\/?page_id=20343"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:38:45","slug":"the-apdps-missions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apdp.mc\/en\/apdp\/the-apdps-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"The APDP\u2019s missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>raising public awareness<\/strong> of its functions, powers, and activities as well as its understanding of the <strong>risks, rules, safeguards, and rights<\/strong> relating to the protection of personal data and the particular attention to the right to data protection of <strong>minors and vulnerable persons, and to promote<\/strong> as part of its duties, the use of <strong>privacy-protecting technologies<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Example of \u201cvulnerable persons\u201d<\/strong>: employees, people with disabilities, the elderly, minors.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>information<\/strong> to data subjects to inform them of their <strong>rights and obligations<\/strong> by answering their questions and communicating on data protection;<\/li>\n<li><strong>advice and support<\/strong> to the data controllers, processors and data subjects;<\/li>\n<li><strong>the formulation of reasoned opinions<\/strong> on the processing submitted by the competent administrative and judicial authorities within the limits provided for by the Law;<\/li>\n<li><strong>the list of processing operations<\/strong> made available to the public;<\/li>\n<li>the issuance of a reasoned opinion on<strong> high-risk impact assessments<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">the authorization in certain cases of <strong>data transfers<\/strong> to a State, a territory or an international organization that does not ensure <strong>an adequate level of protection<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>the control (<strong>verifications and investigations<\/strong>) of the implementation of the processing operations and the notification to the controller or processor of any breaches of the Law;<\/li>\n<li>the keeping of internal registers of <strong>violations of the Law and corrective measures<\/strong> taken;<\/li>\n<li>the immediate reporting to the<strong> Public Prosecutor<\/strong> of acts constituting <strong>crimes and offences<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>the investigation of all claims, petitions and complaints submitted<\/strong> by the data subjects;<\/li>\n<li>the implementation of <strong>indirect right of access<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>the validation and publication of the<strong> codes of conduct<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>the issuing of <strong>certifications and approvals to certification organizations<\/strong>, as well as their periodic reviews;<\/li>\n<li>the adoption and publication of <strong>guidelines or recommendations<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>the approval and publication of <strong>standard contractual clauses<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>the option to <strong>alert the Minister of State<\/strong> to changes in practices, legislation, and regulations that would no longer allow a State to be recognized <strong>as having an adequate level of protection by the Principality<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>the publication of<strong> a list of countries with an adequate level of protection<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>the <strong>cooperation with foreign data protection authorities<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>the drawing up of an <strong>annual activity report<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"height: 463px; width: 100.888%;\" width=\"915\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"604\"><strong>The APDP on the international scene<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"604\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to its missions in the Principality, the APDP is also present on an international level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The APDP represents Monaco on the following bodies:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalprivacyassembly.com\/\">the Global Privacy Assembly (GPA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afapdp.org\/\">l&#8217;Association francophone des Autorit\u00e9s de protection des donn\u00e9es personnelles (AFAPDP)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the European Conference of Data Protection Authorities (\u00ab <em>Spring Conference<\/em> \u00bb)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the GPA, the APDP is co-chair of <strong>the Working Group on the Role of Personal Data Protection in International Development Aid, International Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management (WG AID)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is also a member of the following working groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfdi.bund.de\/EN\/Fachthemen\/Gremienarbeit\/Berlin-Group\/Berlin-Group-node.html\">the International Working Group on Data Protection in Technology<\/a> (Berlin Group)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">the Digital Education Working Group (DEWG)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">the International Enforcement Cooperation Working Group (IEWG)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">the Data Privacy and Other Rights and Freedoms Working Group (DPORF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Authority can moreover be <strong>consulted for an opinion<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>by the <strong>Minister of State<\/strong> or by the <strong>Secretary of State of Justice<\/strong>, Director of Judicial Services during the drafting of legislative or regulatory <strong>measures or directorial orders in the context of the administration of justice<\/strong> relating to the protection of personal data, as well as on all measures relating to data protection;<\/li>\n<li>by the <strong>President of the National Council<\/strong> when studying <strong>proposals or bills<\/strong> relating to data protection or the processing of such data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In these two cases, <strong>the decisions may be made public by the APDP<\/strong> at its own initiative or, with its agreement, <strong>by the Authority that referred the matter to it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Authority may also <strong>propose<\/strong> to the Minister of State the introduction of <strong>special data protection provisions<\/strong> with regard to the use of <strong>new technologies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These proposals may be <strong>made public at the initiative of the APDP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>raising public awareness of its functions, powers, and activities as well as its understanding of the risks, rules, safeguards, and rights relating to the protection of personal data and the particular attention to the right to data protection of minors and vulnerable persons, and to promote as part of its duties, the use of privacy-protecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20338,"menu_order":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The APDP\u2019s missions &#8211; 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