The Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Council of Europe’s 47 member states met in Elsinor (Denmark) on 18 May to discuss the challenges facing the Organisation.
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The Committee of Ministers after several years of preparation also adopted an amending protocol aimed at modernising the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, the only existing legally binding international treaty in this field.
Hungary was represented at the meeting by Ambassador Ágnes Kertész, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the Council of Europe.
The session was chaired by Anders Samuelsen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark and Chair of the Committee of Ministers and was opened by the Prime Minister of Denmark, Lars Løkke Rasmussen. At the end of the meeting the Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe passed from Denmark to Croatia.
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For more information on the new amending protocol on data protection click here.