ISOLAS Lawyers Draft Legislation For Data Sharing Between Government Departments

On 5 July 2021, Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar (HMGoG) published the Data Sharing (Public Authorities) Bill 2021 (the "Bill"). ISOLAS Partner James Montado and Associate Michael Adamberry were instructed by HMGoG to assist with the legislative drafting of this Bill, which aims to improve information sharing within the public sector in order to reduce duplication of tasks and alleviate the burden on data subjects having to provide the same information across different government departments when accessing public services.

Background

Gibraltar's data protection legislation was recently revised following the end of the Brexit transition period, resulting in preservation of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or "EU GDPR") into Gibraltar law, but with certain modifications, resulting in the novel concept of the 'Gibraltar GDPR'. The Gibraltar GDPR, supplemented by the Data Protection Act 2004 ("DPA") and regulations made