Bioethical committees and data protection issues in Poland

Table 1 Statistics of Activity of the Bureau of the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection – according to [10]

			YEAR
Type of Activity			2005	2006	2007
Sent to the Inspector General	Inquiries concerning the binding Act and its interpretation		2821	2228	1298
	Complaints		979	712	796
	Bills submitted for opinion		327	265	348
Inspections conducted by the Inspector General			119	108	167
Decisions	Jurisprudence, Legislation and Complaints Department *			38	280
	Legal Department		6	7	-
	Inspection Department		98	101	130
	Registry Department	Refusal of registration	123	215	173
		Discontinuation of registration proceedings	78	50	40
		Removal from the nationwide registry of personal data filling system	181	533	148
	Complaints Department		336	319	-
Total			822	1263	771
Notification of committed offences			52	15	18
Files	Submitted for registration		5344	4743	4850
	Registered		3175	3610	2598

The possibility of removal from the nationwide registry of personal data filing systems was established as a result of the amendment to the Act on the Personal protection Data (Article 44, active 1 May 2004).
* – The Legal Department and the Complaints Department ceased to exist as of 10 November 2006. As a result of organizational changes, that is the combination of these two departments, the Jurisprudence, Legislation and Complaints Department was established.

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