Seminar for the staff of the Moldovan Constitutional Court on Protection of personal data through the right to respect for private and family life (19 August, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, 16 participants, 2 CoE Consultants)
The seminar was the first event in a series of capacity building activities for the staff of the Moldovan Constitutional Court designed to address several topics of the most actual aspects of the activity of the Constitutional Court. The seminar was held in a very interactive manner, the Consultants used such important tools in for teaching this topic as the Council of Europe’s Handbook No 1, “A guide to the implementation of Article 8 of the ECHR” and ECtHR’ factsheets “Protection of personal data” and “New technologies”. Also extensive reference to the ECtHR jurisprudence was made and case studies used. Whilst the participants were mostly experienced lawyers and already had an understanding of the Convention and the jurisprudence this workshop provided a real step up in understanding of Article 8 and data protection. |