The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection said that the Draft Law on Personal Data Protection prepared and opened for public debate by the Ministry of Justice is significantly below the necessary and expected level.

Underscoring that it beggars belief that such unsatisfactory text is the result of almost four years of activities on the preparation of the new law, the Commissioner warned that the Draft Law virtually ignored the majority of problems observed in the practice so far, which were the source of numerous violations of citizens' rights, to which he had been pointing for years and for which he had initiated and proposed solutions.

The Commissioner will try, to the extent possible, to contribute to improvement of the content of the Law by providing his opinion in writing to the Ministry of Justice. The Commissioner's opinion will as usual be available to the public. At this moment, primarily for the purpose of professional dignity of his associates, the Commissioner would like to particularly emphasize one fact – although it has been announced and stated in the Action Plan for Chapter 23 passed within the framework of negotiations with the EU that the text of the Law will be based on the Model Law on Personal Data Protection, which the Commissioner made available to the Ministry of Justice and the Government more than a year ago, it is quite obvious that this is not so.