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Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data
 On July the 13th 2006 the Diet appointed Micha³ Serzycki Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data. On the same day, the new Inspector General took an oath before the Diet.
In conformity with the Act on the Protection of Personal Data, on July the 13th 2006 Micha³ Serzycki started his four-year term of office as Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data.
Micha³ Serzycki was born on July the 3rd 1971 in Warsaw. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński and from the College of Pedagogy. Moreover, he attended many courses preparing him to occupy managerial positions in public administration, including the courses on the competence of executive public officers, of the candidates to the Supervisory Board, of attorneys responsible for privatisation matters, as well as courses on the knowledge and abilities necessary to organise work properly and execute the respect of the health and safety regulations by the employees. Currently, Mr Serzycki is doing Master of Public Administration, post-graduate studies destined for the administrative managerial staff, at Leon Ko¼miński Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management in Warsaw.
Mr Serzycki started his professional career in the National Fund of Rehabilitation of Handicapped Persons (PFRON) where he occupied various managerial positions. In the meantime, he was acting in the supervisory authorities of commercial partnerships and was the member or the chairman of the Commissions appointed within PFRON. From December 2002 till the moment of the election as Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data, he had been working as Deputy Mayor of the Wola district in Warsaw. Responsibilities of the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection Responsibilities of the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection are provided for by the provisions of the Act of 29 August 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data (i.e. Journal of Laws of 2002, No. 101, item 926, with amendments). Pursuant to these provisions the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection shall be entitled to:
- supervision over ensuring the compliance of data processing with the provisions on the protection of personal data,
- issue administrative decisions and consider complaints with respect to the enforcement of the provisions on the protection of personal data,
- keep the register of data filing systems and provide information on the registered data files,
- issue opinions on bills and regulations with respect to the protection of personal data,
- initiate and undertake activities to improve the protection of personal data,
- participate in the work of international organisations and institutions involved in personal data protection.
In case of any breach of the provisions on personal data protection, the Inspector General ex officio or upon a motion of a person concerned, by means of an administrative decision, shall order to restore the proper legal state, and in particular:
- to remedy the negligence,
- to complete, update, correct, disclose, or not to disclose personal data,
- to apply additional measures protecting the collected personal data,
- to suspend the flow of personal data to a third country,
- to safeguard the data or to transfer them to other subjects,
- to erase the personal data.
Should the inspection reveal that the action or failure in duties of the head of an organisational unit, its employee or any other natural person acting as the controller bears attributes of an offence within the meaning of the Act, the Inspector General shall inform about it a proper prosecuting body, enclosing the evidence confirming his/her suspicions.
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