Glossary of terms used on this site

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaced the Data Protection Directive in 2018. The aim of the GDPR is to provide one set of data protection rules for all EU member states and the European Economic Area (EEA). The document comprises 173 recitals and 99 articles.

means personal data relating to the inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person which give unique information about the physiology or the health of that natural person and which result, in particular, from an analysis of a biological sample from the natural person in question