About the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA)
The Dutch DPA supervises compliance with acts regulating the use of personal data. This means that the Dutch DPA supervises compliance with and application of the "Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens" (Wbp; Personal Data Protection Act), the "Wet politieregisters" (Wpolr; Data Protection [Police Files] Act) and the "Wet gemeentelijke basisadministratie" (Wgba; Municipal Database [Personal Records] Act).
The Dutch DPA must be notified of the use of personal data, unless an exemption applies.
The framework for performing this task has been laid down in the Wbp and other related legislation. In this respect, the legislator has implemented Article 28 of the European Privacy Directive 95/46/EC, which explicitly provides for the existence of such a supervisory authority and also stipulates that this authority should fulfill its task completely independently.
These tasks sometimes relate to obligations, but as a rule they relate to powers. Subject to the law and the opinion of the court, the Dutch DPA is entitled to take decisions itself regarding the execution of these powers. Other tasks, such as providing information and conducting studies of new developments, result from the general supervisory task. Regarding its independence, the Dutch DPA has considerable freedom to establish the details of its tasks within the frameworks of the act, to set the necessary priorities, and decide where to lay particular emphasis.
How we help the Dutch DPA
We have been working for and with the Dutch DPA since 1999, and over the years have carried out the following activities in their EMC | Documentum environments:
- Design and implementation of and support for the creation of an ECM system at the Dutch DPA.
- Second and third line helpdesk, dealing with EMC | Documentum related questions from users.
- Software development and implementation of new EMC | Documentum applications (including a BPM application).
- Support for and implementation of migration contracts.
- Installation, configuration and introduction of the Report Generator Tool for Documentum.