Privacy and data Protection Centre

The centre

The Centre for Privacy and Data Protection Studies and Analysis (PDPC) was established on April 30, 2020, by resolution of the Scientific Council of the Universidade Europeia.

Mission

The Privacy and Data Protection Centre, hereinafter referred to as CENTRE, was created within the scope of the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences of the Universidade Europeia and aims to:

Follow up and monitor the implementation of the new regulatory framework for the protection of personal data in the European Union and nationally, as well as analyse the development of the matter in other geographic spaces or political spaces, such as Portuguese-speaking countries, and contribute to the clarification of academia, organizations and society in general.
Develop programmes and teach courses on a face-to-face and off-site basis, in collaboration with Portuguese and foreign institutions, in the area of personal data protection and in related areas, such as Intellectual Property, Consumer Law, Health Law, Digital Law and Artificial Intelligence.

Objectives

Analyse the rules and their application on privacy and protection of personal data.
Organise and support conferences, seminars and other activities of a scientific and pedagogical nature, on a face-to-face basis and on a non-face-to-face basis, related to its purpose, of a national and international nature.
Promote research in national and international networks, based on the crossroads of privacy and data protection with other areas of private and public law.
Organise and support non-degree courses and other initiatives within the scope of its mission.
Carry out training actions in its areas of interest.
Disseminate intellectual production, namely through digital infrastructures.

Head office

The Health Observatory has its headquarters and develops its activities at the premises of Universidade Europeia, on the campus of Quinta do Bom Nome, Estrada da Correia, No. 53, 1500-210 Lisbon.

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Contact

Cristina Caldeira

Cristina.caldeira@universidadeeuropeia.pt

Members

Founding Members: Cristina Maria de Gouveia Caldeira and Alexandre Sousa Pinheiro
Invited Members: Eduardo Vera Cruz, Gabrielle Sarlet, Ingo W. Sarlet, José Roberto Goldim, Márcia Santana Fernandes, Manuel David Masseno, and Pedro Barbas Homem.

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Fundamental Rights: Privacy | Data Protection

Consumer Law

Health Law

Digital Law

Artificial Intelligence

Intellectual Property

Legislation

Regulation (UE) 2016/679, de 27 de abril, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/PT/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32016R0679
Lei n.º 58/2019, de 8 de agosto: Ensure the implementation, in the national legal order, of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 27. https://dre.pt/pesquisa/-/search/123815982/details/maximized
Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 92/2019 of June 5: Approves the National Cyberspace Security Strategy 2019-2023 .
Revoga a Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 36/2015, de 12 de junho que aprovou a anterior Estratégia Nacional de Segurança do Ciberespaço.
Determines the preparation of an Action Plan for the National Cyberspace Security Strategy 2019-2023, to be approved within one hundred and twenty days after the entry into force of this resolution. It determines that the assumption of commitments for the execution of the National Cyberspace Security Strategy 2019-2023 depends on the existence of available funds by the competent public entities. https://dre.pt/home/-/dre/122498962/details/maximized
Law No. 46/2018 of August 13: Cyberspace Security Legal Regime.
Directive (EU) 2016/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council of July 6, 2016, concerning measures aimed to ensure a high common level of security of network and information systems throughout the Union; https://dre.pt/home/-/dre/116029384/details/maximized
Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 41/2018 of March 28: It defines technical guidelines for the Public Administration on the security architecture of networks and information systems relating to personal data. https://dre.pt/home/-/dre/114937034/details/maximized
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/151 of January 30, 2018: Establishes implementing rules for Directive (EU) 2016/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the detailed specification of the elements to be taken into account by digital service providers when managing the risks posed to the security of networks and information systems, as well as the detailed specification of parameters to determine whether the impact of an incident is substantial.https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/PT/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R0151&from=EN