Traduction de «EWRS » (Anglais → Français) :

EWRS users should be particularly vigilant when exchanging, through the selective messaging channel, sensitive data concerning the health conditions of an identified or identifiable person, e.g. infected or potentially exposed persons whose contact details or other personal information are concomitantly disclosed through the EWRS, so that the person in question may be directly or indirectly identified.

The EWRS has been conceived as a multiple user system connecting, through appropriate technical means including different structured communication channels, the designated contact persons from the competent public health authorities in EEA Member States (hereinafter, the ‘national EWRS focal points’), the Commission, the ECDC and, to a limited extent, also the WHO.

However, since EWRS users are not data protection experts and may not always be sufficiently aware of data protection requirements imposed by law, it is advisable to provide EWRS users with guidelines in which the functioning of the EWRS from a data protection perspective is explained in a user-friendly and easily understandable manner.

In order to make sure that the processing operation has a legal basis, that data are collected for legitimate and explicit purposes and that they are not further processed in a way incompatible with those purposes, each time they collect or otherwise process personal data through the EWRS, EWRS users should:

The management and use of the EWRS may involve the exchange of personal data in specific cases where the relevant legal instruments so provide (see Section 4 on the legal grounds for the exchange of personal information in the EWRS).

In particular when communicating personal data within the EWRS with a view to prevent and stop the spread of communicable diseases, the competent public health authorities of Member States and the Commission should ensure that personal data is adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose as well as not processed for other purposes, and that it is accurate, updated when necessary and kept for no longer than necessary for that purpose; they should also ensure that persons subject to contact tracing are duly informed of the nature of the processing, of the data processed, of the rights to access and rectify data concern ...[+++]ing them, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort, and that appropriate levels of confidentiality and security are put in place within the EWRS to protect the processing of such data.