Kategorie: Personal data protection
The Designated Person in the Context of the Protection of Whistleblowers
The Act on Protection of Reporting Persons (the “Act“) became final and was published in the Collection of Laws on 20 June 2023. The Czech Republic has thus fulfilled its obligation to implement Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 (the “Directive“) into its legal order, although …
Read moreProtection of whistleblowers– new obligations for employers
On 1 August 2023, a new Czech Act on Protection of Reporting Persons will come into force introducing institutional protection for reporting persons (whistleblowers) in line with European legislation. The main novelty is the obligation of obliged entities: to implement an internal reporting system, which will usually enable employees- reporting persons to report in a …
Read moreCookies and GDPR: what do you need to know as a website provider?
Cookies are already a very common part of web browsing and the architecture of most modern websites. This is perhaps why the area of cookies and their legal regulation is still evolving, especially about the processing of personal data through them. A fundamental change in this area was brought about by Act No. 374/2021 Coll., on …
Read moreCurrent draft of the bill on the protection of whistleblowers
The topic of whistleblower protection, which has been intensively discussed by Czech society and the professional public, has been resonating for some time now, as well as the new draft law on whistleblower protection, by which the Czech Republic was to implement Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 …
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