Liech­ten­stein: Con­sul­ta­ti­on on the total revi­si­on of the LI-DSG opened

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  • Liech­ten­stein opens con­sul­ta­ti­on on total revi­si­on of the Data Pro­tec­tion Act with a dead­line of Febru­ary 28, 2018
  • The new basis of the LI-DSG is the Ger­man BDSG; revi­si­on ser­ves to incor­po­ra­te the GDPR into the EEA Agreement.
  • GDPR brings stron­ger data sub­ject rights, natio­nal ope­ning clau­ses and is inten­ded to offer com­pa­nies legal cer­tain­ty and less effort.

The Liech­ten­stein govern­ment has Con­sul­ta­ti­on on the total revi­si­on of the Liech­ten­stein Data Pro­tec­tion Act ope­ned, which lasts until Febru­ary 28, 2018.

The bill and the expl­ana­to­ry report (which is cal­led “Ver­nehm­las­sungs­be­richt” and cor­re­sponds to the Swiss “Erläu­te­rungs­be­richt”) are Available on the web­site of the Liech­ten­stein Natio­nal Admi­ni­stra­ti­on.

The basis of the total­ly revi­sed LI-DSG is no lon­ger the Swiss DSG – as it is today – but the Ger­man Fede­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Act (BDSG).

The Media release to this is as follows:

At its mee­ting on Decem­ber 19, 2017, the govern­ment appro­ved the con­sul­ta­ti­on report con­cer­ning the Total revi­si­on of the Data Pro­tec­tion Act as well as the Amend­ment of other laws adopted.

The total revi­si­on of the Data Pro­tec­tion Act takes place in view of the plan­ned Adop­ti­on of the Gene­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­ti­on (Regu­la­ti­on (EU) 2016/679) into the EEA Agree­ment. Once incor­po­ra­ted into the EEA Agree­ment, the Gene­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­ti­on will be direct­ly appli­ca­ble and would in prin­ci­ple not requi­re any fur­ther natio­nal imple­men­ta­ti­on. Howe­ver, the GDPR con­ta­ins num­e­rous “Ope­ning clau­ses”, which obli­ge or entit­le the natio­nal legis­la­tor to regu­la­te cer­tain aspects in grea­ter detail by law.

The Gene­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­ti­on updates and moder­ni­zes the pri­va­cy prin­ci­ples enshri­ned in the 1995 Data Pro­tec­tion Direc­ti­ve. Indi­vi­du­als should have more con­trol over their per­so­nal data and be able to access it more easi­ly. Per­so­nal data should be pro­tec­ted in a high­ly inter­con­nec­ted world, regard­less of whe­re it is trans­fer­red and whe­re it is pro­ce­s­sed or stored. If a citi­zen does not want his or her data to be pro­ce­s­sed, the data must be dele­ted if the­re is no legi­ti­ma­te rea­son for sto­ring it.

For com­pa­nies, the new uni­form Euro­pean legal frame­work should gene­ra­te not only more legal cer­tain­ty, but abo­ve all lower costs and less admi­ni­stra­ti­ve work. The con­sul­ta­ti­on report can be obtai­ned from the Govern­ment Chan­cel­lery or via www.rk.llv.li (Con­sul­ta­ti­ons). The con­sul­ta­ti­on peri­od ends on Febru­ary 28, 2018.