Upon request by COREON and some European epidemiological researchers Evert-Ben van Veen analysed the report of the committee on civil liberties, justice and home affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament regarding the coming European data Protection Regulation. The conclusions of the detailed analysis are that LIBE would have disastrous effects on observational research in Europe, even more so than worried researchers had predicted already.
The report can be downloaded here.

Working till the small hours of the night, as there were the needs of paying clients as well, Evert-Ben van Veen finished the report on LIBE’s proposed changes to the General Data Protection Regulation. See under publications. The challenges were, amongst other things, to summarise LIBE’s many pages and sometimes confusing texts into a readable format without omitting anything important and, next to criticism, to indicate briefly what is at present the ethical and practical basis for much public health research in Europe which couldn’t continue under LIBE.

On the 15th of March MedLawconsult will organise a seminar for researchers and patient organisations where the GDPR will be further explained and initiatives to save public health research in Europe will be discussed. Professor Paul van der Maas will chair the seminar.

On 29th January 2013, gave a short presentation at the seminar on the new medical devices regulation. The seminar was organised by TILEC and Lexxion, and Evert-Ben van Veen’s subject was about the relation between PMS and Data Protection. The presentation can be downloaded here.
All the speakers at the seminar were highly critical of the draft General Data Protection Regulation.

On the 24th of November at the EUROCOURSE summit in Brussels Evert-Ben van Veen gave a presentation of the main aspects of his research done for WP 2 of EUROCOURSE and his drive behind such legal research. Several of his main themes came back in those 15 minutes, such as the distinction between interventional and observational research, the prevailing emphasis on autonomy in academic medical law and solidarity and citizenship as counterbalancing values and good research governance.