Legal Framework
The information systems of transport companies should be designed and implemented by taking into account the customers’ right to protection of their personal data. They should reconcile the right to free movement of individuals with the requirements of effective public transportation. A specific group on e-ticketing in public transport has been set up within article 29 Working Party.
The Working Party has been established by Article 29 of Directive 95/46/EC.
It is the independent EU Advisory Body on Data Protection and Privacy. Its tasks are laid down in Article 30 of Directive 95/46/EC and in Article 14 of Directive 97/66/EC.
The Working Party was set up to achieve several primary objectives:
- To provide expert opinion from member state level to the
Commission on questions of data protection.
- To promote the uniform application of the general principles of the
Directives in all Member States through co-operation between data
protection supervisory authorities.
- To advise the Commission on any Community measures affecting the
rights and freedoms of natural persons with regard to the processing
of personal data and privacy.
- To make recommendations to the public at large, and in particular
to Community institutions on matters relating to the protection of
persons with regard to the processing of personal data and privacy
in the European Community.
