Administrative decisions issued by the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection

Pursuant to the provisions of Art. 22 of the Act of August 29, 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data (unified text: Journal of Laws of 2002 No. 101, item 926 with later amendments) the proceedings with respect to the matters regulated by this Act shall be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure, unless other provisions of the law state otherwise. The above statement means that cases the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection deals with are settled in an administrative way. It needs to be stressed that administration of norms of the substantive law in the course of administrative proceedings results in issuing an administrative decision which establishes rights and/or obligations of the entities which are not organisationally subordinated to the body issuing the decision. This rule is reflected by Art. 18 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Data, which states that in case of any breach of the provisions on personal data protection, the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection ex officio or upon a motion of a person concerned, by means of an administrative decision, shall order to restore the proper legal state.

The hereunder presented summaries of the selected administrative decisions issued by the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection are only an extract from the activity of this personal data protection authority.