Article 123 PDPA
The Act of 5 June 1998 on local government (OJ L 995, p. 995) is amended as follows:
1) after Article 4a, the following Article 4b is added:
„Art. 4b.
1. The county, in order to ensure public order and safety of citizens, as well as fire and flood protection, may use technical means for recording images (video surveillance) in an area of public space, with the consent of the manager of that area or the entity holding legal title to that area, or on the territory of real estate and in construction facilities that are property of the county or county organizational units, as well as in the area around such real estate and construction facilities, if this is necessary to ensure public order and safety of citizens or fire and flood protection.
2. Monitoring does not include sanitary rooms, locker rooms, cafeterias, smoking rooms and social facilities.
3. Image recordings containing personal data shall be processed only for the purposes for which they were collected, and shall be stored for a period not exceeding 3 months from the date of recording, unless otherwise provided by separate regulations.
4. After the expiration of the period referred to in paragraph 3, image recordings containing personal data obtained as a result of monitoring shall be destroyed, except when the recordings have been secured, in accordance with separate regulations.
5. Properties and construction facilities under monitoring shall be visibly and legibly marked with information about monitoring, in particular by means of appropriate signs.
6. Monitoring, which involves the processing of personal data, requires the use of security measures for the processing of such data, in particular to prevent their loss or unlawful dissemination, as well as to prevent access to the data by unauthorized persons."
2) In Article 50, the existing text shall be marked as paragraph 1 and the following paragraph 2 shall be added:
2. Property protection shall include, in particular, monitoring on and around the premises and buildings constituting county property.The provisions of Article 4b (2) shall apply accordingly.
