Nicolas Kanellopoulos – Chara Zerva & Associates

GDPR

Lawyer, D.E.A,  Senior Counsel

Member of the Permanent Scientific Committee for Data Protection of the Hellenic Ministry of Justice (2023 to date) Head of the Auditors Department of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (2014-2018) Legal expert at the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (1990 – 2014) National Expert at the Data Protection Unit of the DG Justice of the European Commission – Brussels (2006-2010) Member of the Greek delegation to the DAPIX Group (Data Protection & Information Exchange) of the Council of the European Union during the Greek Presidency (2014) Member of the legislative committee for the harmonization of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the integration of Directive 2016/680 into the Greek legal order Representative of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority in the Article 29 Working Party on the protection of personal data (Brussels), the Schengen Supervisory Authority and the Schengen Evaluation Committee of the European Commission Scholar of the International Visitors Program of the US Department of State on Biometric Data Protection (2003) Editor for the data protection section of the Greek legal review TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNICATION LAW He has conducted seminars on Personal Data Protection Law at the Athens Bar Association, the Hellenic Ministry of National Defence, the Hellenic National Human Rights Commission and various entities of the private sector Frequent speaker at scientific conferences in Greece and abroad

Athens Bar Association

 Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) – Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) 1987 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.B. 1986).

The cooperation and consistency mechanism, in “Kotsalis L. – Menoudakos K. (ed.), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Legal dimension and practical application”, ed. Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens a’ 2018 – b’ 20 The concept of personal data, in “Kotsalis L. (ed.), Personal data: Analysis – Comments – Application”, ed. Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens 2016 Processing of personal data, in “Kotsalis L. (ed.), Personal data: Analysis – Comments – Application”, ed. Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens 2016 Personal data filing system, in “Kotsalis L. (ed.), Personal data: Analysis – Comments – Application”, ed. Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens 2016 Right to informational self-determination and Public Order: The role of the Authority, in “Donos P., Mitrou L., Mitletton Ph., Papakonstantinou E., The Personal Data Protection Authority and the added value of the protection of rights”, Sakkoulas Publications, Athens 2002 Vaccine and protection of personal data, journal Ta Nea, 1-13-2021 General Regulation for the Protection of Personal Data: One year after, interview in journal Empros, 20-5-2019 Forms of Privacy, review Vima Ideon, No 10, February 2008 The protection of privacy today, review Thèmes de Sciences Humaines, No 6, November 2008 Problems of implementing the European directive on the protection of personal data in the Greek legal order, Revue Hellénique des Droits de l’Homme, No 11/2001 Processing of Personal Data: Interpretation of the Concept of Filing System – Application to leasing disputes, review Synigoros, No 24, March – April 2001