Decision details

Councillor Peter Wilson, Executive Member for Resources, presented the report of the Director (Policy and Governance). 

The EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will come into force on 25 May 2018.  These introduce a new data protection regime to be enforced against any organisation doing business or providing services within the European Economic Area. This includes Local Government.

The GDPR provide new principles to be applied placing new obligations on data holders and new rights are granted to data owners. There is also a new role created who is responsible for the monitoring of the Data Protection regime in each organisation, the Data Protection Officer.

A Member Learning Session has been scheduled on 24 July, prior to the next Council meeting, all about the impact of GDPR, in addition to the elearning course made available to all members. 

The Executive Member for Resources, Councillor Peter Wilson proposed and the Executive Leader, Councillor Alistair Bradley seconded the Decision

1.    To approve the adoption of the policies contained at Appendix 1.

2.    To approve the appointment of the Council’s Monitoring Officer, the Head of Legal, Democratic and HR Services to the role of Data Protection Officer.