YEREVAN, MAY 22, ARMENPRESS. The Justice Ministry of Armenia carries out significant works in connection with the personal data, acting Justice Minister Artur Hovhannisyan told Armenpress ahead of the Workshop on ‘Personal Data Protection and Video Surveillance’.

“In 2015 the law was adopted in accordance with European standards which clearly states in which case the person’s personal data can be collected. Under this law a body, a personal data agency, controlling the legality of personal data collection was formed. The agency examines the complaints, applications sent from people who consider that their personal data has been collected illegally. The agency carries out investigation based on the appeals, receives an information from the one who collected the data and then makes a decision”, the acting Minister said.

He said the workshop’s objective is to reveal to what extent the law on protection of collected personal data is complete in terms of video surveillance. He added that there are still problems in this field which are unresolved by law, and it is necessary to provide complete response by law in which cases a person can be videotaped.

In 2015-16 the personal data agency provided recommendations to 251 people.

Hoa-Binh Adjemian, Head of Cooperation Section at the EU Delegation to Armenia, said in certain places cameras are necessary, however, in line with this, the personal data must be protected.

The two-day Workshop on ‘Personal Data Protection and Video Surveillance’ is being held by the personal data protection agency, in cooperation with the European Commission.