NADPO was formed in 1993, to act as a network for the sharing of best practice and ideas between professionals working in the public and private sectors who are responsible for data protection and information handling.

 

Useful website URL's

European Union http://europa.eu/index_en.htm responsible for EU wide legislation including Data Protection and Environmental Information implemented in UK by Acts of Parliament and/or Statutory Instruments

Ministry of Justice  http://www.justice.gov.uk UK government department responsible for introducing most information rights legislation

Dept of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs http://www.defra.gov.uk UK government department responsible for Environmental legislation

Infomation Commissioner's Office http://www.ico.gov.uk independent regulator for information rights legislation applicable throughout UK (DPA, PECR, FOI, EIR)

Scottish Information Commissioner's Office independent regulator for FOI (Scotland) Act http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/home/ScottishInformationCommissioner.asp  

Official Text of all legislation applicable to UK jurisdictions http://www.legislation.gov.uk