Summary

The Program, in which the Italian Parliament also participates, with the Hellenic Parliament as its leader, is funded exclusively by the European Commission. Its aim is the provision of the expertise in order to strengthen the Armenian National Assembly on monitoring the implementation of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between Armenia and the EU, which covers bilateral trade and entrepreneurship issues.

Project INTER|PARES “Parliaments in Partnership” (https://www.idea.int/news-media/multimedia-reports/inter-pares-parliaments-partnership) is a part of the EU Global Project to Strengthen the Capacity of Parliaments that aims to strengthen representative and inclusive democracy through support to the effective functioning of parliaments in partner countries, by enhancing their legislative, oversight, representative, budgetary and administrative functions. This Action, the first of global nature, is a further step towards contributing towards making parliaments in partner countries more effective, transparent, accountable, representative and approachable.

The Project entitled «Developing a comprehensive strategy against racism, intolerance and hate crime» is funded by the EU under the REC (Rights, Equality and Citizenship) Programe    “Restricted call for proposals for public authorities on preventing and combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, and in particular hate crime and hate speech”.

The Hellenic Parliament / EPIS participates as a partner together with the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights (Project Leader) and the Panteio University.

The goal of BPR4GDPR is to provide a holistic framework able to support end-to-end GDPR-compliant intra- and inter-organisational ICT-enabled processes at various scales, while also being generic enough, fulfilling operational requirements covering diverse application domains. To this end, the proposed solutions will have a strong semantic foundation and will cover the full process life cycle addressing major challenges and priorities posed by the Regulation, including requirements interpretations, broad territorial scope, accountability, security means enforcement, data subject’s rights and consent, unified data view and processing actions inventory, privacy by design, etc.

Within the framework of HeP’s / EPIS’ Proposal in the Program: "Science Meets Parliaments / Science Meets Regions", of the European Commission (EC), and in particular of the General Directorate "Joint Research Center" (DG JRC), the Hellenic Parliament will organize on Friday, March 15, 2019 at HeP’s historic Senate Hall, an informative one day conference entitled "Strengthening Social Inclusion and Integration Policies for Migrants in Greece".

The following actions will be implemented:

a) organization of training seminars for data protection officers, judges and lawyers in Greece and Cyprus

b) organization of a transnational meeting to exchange good practices and disseminate the results of the program

c) creation of a manual for data protection officers, lawyers and judges on the effective implementation of the new Regulation.

The Action will set-up a platform (ManyLaws) which will deliver a set of services, to the Parliaments, public bodies and organizations, citizens and businesses built on text mining, advanced processing and semantic analysis technologies, of the EU, Greek and Austrian laws.