11 September 2018: Appointment

Marianne Faessel is appointed Data Protection Officer at the Autorité de la concurrence

Marianne Faessel has been appointed Data Protection Officer for the Autorité de la concurrence by its President, Isabelle de Silva.

The Data Protection Officer position is a newly created one at the Autorité de la concurrence.

Marianne Faessel holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Paris V René Descartes, an LLM from Duke University in the United States, and is admitted to the Paris Bar. She started her career in the Paris office of the law firm August & Debouzy in 1998. She then joined the legal division of the Economic and Finance Department at the French Embassy in Washington, DC in 2001, and became Head of the division in 2003. Since 2010, Marianne Faessel has been an Adviser for international Affairs to the President of the Autorité de la concurrence.

The role of the Data Protection Officer

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), creates a data protection officer position.
The data protection officer is primarily responsible for:
- Monitoring compliance with the Regulation and domestic law in relation to the protection of personal data;
- Informing and advising the organization which appointed him/her, as well as their staff;
- Acting as the contact point on all issues;
- Cooperating with the French data protection authority (Commission nationale informatique et libertés, CNIL).

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