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Countries Ratified

The Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. Council of Europe 1981.

Countries that have signed AND ratified this Convention:

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom.

Countries that have signed this Convention:

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Turkey.

You can find more information on the website of the Council of Europe in clicking here.

Note:

In order to meet the requirements in relation to 'co-operation in the field of justice and home affairs' (Chapter 24), Candidate Countries wanting to join the EC are expected to have signed and ratified this Convention, as most now have. The most recent countries to ratify the Convention were Albania in February 2005, Liechtenstein in 2004, Malta in 2003 and Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Poland and Romania in 2002. See the regular reports for each country, and for information on enlarged Europe see here.