Private and family life, personal data
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This impact area refers to some individual rights and family conditions, such as privacy, the right to move freely within the EU and family protection, in terms of legal, economic and social aspects. Protecting fundamental rights and creating a European area of freedom, security and justice are two intrinsically linked tasks, which are actually two sides of the same coin. Moreover, they are two of the key goals of European integration in the years to come. There are several tools available for enshrining these rights. Perhaps the best known of all is the Charter of Fundamental Rights proclaimed by European Union leaders in December 2000. It stems from the EU Treaty, European Court of Justice case-law, the European Union Member States constitutional traditions and the Council of Europes European Convention on Human Rights. In December 2003, the European Council decided to extend the remit of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia in order to convert it into a Fundamental Rights Agency. As the European Union's internal borders were gradually abolished, the need to create a genuine European area of freedom, security and justice became apparent. That was why EU leaders approved in Tampere (Finland) in October 1999 a set of concrete measures for achieving such an ambitious goal. This includes such projects as forging a common immigration and asylum policy and bolstering police and judicial cooperation. But this process in turn has highlighted the need to reinforce the fundamental human rights of EU citizens and of people living in the European Union. A limited selection of human rights criteria has been included to indicate possible consequences for personal and family life of certain initiatives. It is assumed that any initiative that leads to contravention of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms would not pass European Law.[1]
According to the Impact Assessment Guidelines of the European Commission, the following key questions are of particular importance when examining the impacts of policy initiatives on specific regions or sectors:
- Evaluating impact on privacy of individuals
- Evaluating impact on family life
- Evaluating impact on prosessing personal data[1]
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