During the 2017 Legislative Session, the Maryland General Assembly passed the Open Meetings Act training
requirements for public bodies, including local school boards.
In addition to
the requirement for public bodies to protect personal information no matter where it is, FIPPA also requires public bodies to ensure that, subject to three exceptions listed in s. 30.1 of FIPPA, personal information is only stored in and accessed from inside Canada.
Not exact matches
Both private and
public bodies adhere to the International Organization
for Standardization basic standards
for accreditation of certifiers (ISO 65) in addition to their specific
requirements.
The Brown Act calls
for all meetings of local legislative
bodies be open to the
public and
for their agendas and meeting materials to be publicly posted in advance, among other
requirements aimed at complete openness to the
public.
The report's recommendations include: a limit on the number of times a sire can be used
for breeding; health screening should be made a legal
requirement for dogs selected
for breeding; the title of Champion should not be given unless a dog has been health screened; the word «pedigree» should be linked to a high standard of breeding
for health and welfare; an independent advisory
body should be set up to advise the Kennel Club and breed clubs; a puppy sale contract should be introduced to protect consumers; DEFRA should take forward a campaign
for public awareness.
Lexbox's privacy policy claims to comply with all applicable Canadian legislation on privacy protection, but it is difficult to know whether this includes data sovereignty
requirements for information of
public bodies (i.e. is Lexbox data hosted in Canada?).
Internal audit, reporting with self - discretion and the role of external review
bodies need to be strengthened with provisions
for specific reporting
requirements, regular review, dedicated resources
for oversight and transparent mechanisms
for accountability to assure the Canadian
public.
The third could well be fatal here, since «government
bodies» (some provinces have used the term «
public bodies») are allowed to impose their own «information technology
requirements»
for electronic documents and signatures submitted to them.
Generally, following the increasingly penetrative analysis of the decisions of
public bodies where European Convention rights are in issue and also the transparency
requirements on
public authorities, eg following the Freedom of Information Act 2000, there does now appear to be a sterner onus on
public authorities to give reasons
for their decisions, at least so far as is necessary to enable those affected by them to understand why the decision has been made and to exercise their rights accordingly.
Edenred (UK Group) Ltd v Her Majesty's Treasury & Ors [2015] UKSC 45, [2015] PTSR 1088; [2016] 1 All ER 763; [2015] 3 CMLR 47, SC, July 1 2015 Acting
for the Claimants / Appellant on a leading case on: (i) material variations to
public contracts, (ii) compliance of OJEU contract notices with EU transparency
requirements, and (iii) the application of EU procurement law to «internal» arrangements between
public bodies.
For this reason the Commission considers that the
public notification and consultation
requirements that are proposed in item 26 of Schedule 5 to the Bill should apply to all situations where the Government is considering varying, the area of a representative
body.