Suchergebnisse

Los datos personales revelan elementos de la vida intima. A fin de proteger la identidad humana y preservar la responsabilidad de las elecciones personales, el legislador excluyó, limitó, enmarcó el tratamiento automatizado de los datos nominativos. Ciertas categorias de datos (especialmente las que son relacionadas con las opiniones religiosas) son más o menos confidenciales y necesitan una proteccion particular. Un tipo especial de protección esta previsto para estos datos muy confidenciales. En primer lugar se prohibe su inforamatización, pero hay cierto número de excepciones. Se analiza y se comenta en este articulo la aplicación de las diferentes excepciones a través de la jurisprudencia de la Comisión Informática y Libertades. El autor se interesa particular mente por el tratamiento automatizado por iglesias y grupos religiosos de los datos relacionados con la vida privada de sus miembros, y también por la informatización de opiniones religiosas justificada por motivos de interés público, cuando el censo.

The valorisation of the national centre for scientific research's data bases

The National Centre for Scientific Research is a producer of data bases which are direct product or sub-product of research. Therefore it has to articulate the valorisation of research results - the data bases - with the rules for public data dissemination and its own mission of scientific information dissemination. It also has to take into account the rights of researchers and the rights of so-called "reserved" informations. The valorisation of data bases also has to reconcile the possibilities of giving monopolies to contracting enterprises and the duties of dissemination included in the proposal of a european community directive on the protection of data bases.

What place does Europe reserve for culture? In particular, does the legal framework make it possible for the cultures of member states to develop in the respect of their diversity, as stipulated in the Union Treaty ? We can, of course, prefer a generous vision of a composite Europe, where ideas circulate freely, as well as their creators and the latter's works. Given the European community's founding principles, we are tempted to see the EU'S legal order as the natural setting for the diffusion of European cultures. But the EU'S rationale mainly focusses on building a single market in a single space. From this angle, the perspective is not so idyllic. Although certain cultural goods can also be seen from an economic viewpoint (in that they are intended for circulation in commerce), their cultural value should not be overlooked. How does EU law handle this question ? Economic and cultural interests are not always compatible with each other. Under what circumstances does cultural specificity require a solution different from an economic one ? Does EU law really take into account the dimension of culture in the pursuit of its principal objectives ? All these questions receive different answers depending on the type of legislation (whether about taxation, authors' rights, the circulation of works of art). Given current legal texts, we can but hope for more awareness whenever cultural interests are at stake.