Η πρόσβαση στα δημόσια έγγραφα και η προστασία των προσωπικών δεδομένων

Abstract

The obligation to simultaneously satisfy the right of access to public documents and the protection of the personal data of the governed is often a field of concern within the public administration. This fact was the trigger for the writing of this paper, given the new binding obligations arising from the implementation of the General Regulation on Data Protection. The purpose of this paper is to study the two rights, both in terms of regulatory delimitation and through their coexistence, which creates a wide range of challenges for modern public administration. In order to make this possible, the method of first listing these rights separately and then examining the issues arising from their coexistence, through the path taken by the public administration to resolve them, was deemed more appropriate. The work is structured in three chapters. The first chapter includes a detailed list of the grid of concepts, obligations and other coordinates of the right of access to public documents. The right to protection of personal data is examined in the second chapter, primarily through its national and EU constitutional and legislative protection, as well as through the new regulatory framework, always in relation to the right of access to public documents. In the third chapter the two rights meet on the basis of the conflict that arises from their simultaneous satisfaction and the way to resolve it is being studied further, through the prism of practical issues that arise in public administration. The work concludes with the presentation of the concluding remarks that emerge for the issue under consideration, in the light of the current developments that the Greek public administration is called to cope with.