The National Commission for Data Protection, the Luxembourg supervisory authority, is responsible for the implementation of tasks related to the RGPD, to the law on data protection in criminal matters/social security and to the law on privacy protection in the electronic communications sector.
Legal references[1]
The law of 1 August 2018 on the organisation of the National Data Protection Commission implements Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), amending the Labour Code and the amended Act of 25 March 2015 stipulating the rules of remuneration and the terms and conditions for the promotion of State civil servants. This law complements the General Data Protection Regulation at national level.
The law of 1 August 2018 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data in criminal and national security matters applies to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including protection against and prevention of threats to public security, and on the free movement of such data. It transposes into national law the directive (EU) 2016/680 of 27 April 2016.
The Amended law of 30 May 2005 concerning the specific provisions for protection of the individual in respect of the processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector, and amending Articles 88-2 and 88-4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure governs the protection of personal data in the field of telecommunications and electronic communications and takes recent and foreseeable developments in the field of services and technologies involving electronic communications into account.
[1] https://cnpd.public.lu/fr/legislation/droit-lux.html
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