With regard to the discussion of the Commission’s draft of the FDPA on September 24 and 25, 2019 in the National Council, the Parliamentary Services have published the following documents:
- Course of the debate (as of September 11, 2019) with details on the division of the debate into Entrance Debate with the minority motions Rutz and Wermuth for referral back to the Commission (Rutz) or the Federal Council (Wermuth) and Detailed consultation in four blocks:
- Block 1: Purpose, scope, terms and principles;
- Block 2: General provisions as well as information obligations of the controller and the
Order processor; - Block 3: Further obligations of the controller and the processor as well as rights of the data subject
Person; - Block 4 (Special provisions on data processing by private persons and federal bodies, FDPIC, penal provisions, conclusion of state treaties, final provisions, repeal and amendment of other enactments).
- new Applications Jauslin from September 12, 2019 and Romano of 19 September 2019 on Art. 11 para. 5 E-FDPA: Both want the exemption from the obligation to keep a Processing directory at the threshold of 250 employees with the following justification:
With this application, the Data Protection Act Aligned with European data protection law. The latter provides for exceptions to the obligation to keep a register of data processing for companies with fewer than 250 employees. The present proposal thus corrects both the Federal Council’s “swiss finish” with 50 employees and the majority proposal of the SPK-N (500 employees), which is responsible for the GDPR falls below.
Additional individual applications may be submitted until 3:30 p.m. on September 23, 2019.