{"id":452,"date":"2019-12-06T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=452"},"modified":"2020-12-08T21:25:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:25:01","slug":"dsk-german-data-protection-conference-concept-for-setting-fines-in-proceedings-against-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"DSK (German data protection conference) concept for setting fines in proceedings against companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In June 2019, the Conference of Independent Federal and State Data Protection Supervisory Authorities (DSK) drew up a concept for the calculation of fines in proceedings against companies. However, the concept was not published until 14 October. The new model is intended to facilitate a comprehensible practice in the calculation of fines.<br>DSK regards the turnover of a company as a suitable starting point for ensuring the effectiveness and proportionality of the fines. The allocation of fines is therefore carried out in five steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"1\"><li>Assignment of the company to a size class<\/li><li>Determination of the average annual sales of the respective subgroup of the size class<\/li><li>Determination of an economic basic value<\/li><li>Multiplication of the determined basic value by a factor that depends on the severity of the circumstances of the case.<\/li><li>Adjustment of the determined value based on circumstances relating to the offender and other circumstances not yet taken into account<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The categorisation of companies according to size classes (A to D) and the calculations in steps 2 to 5 can be found in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eprivacy.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9fef4c9644bf7b845f2f920a7&amp;id=73bd9ccc3f&amp;e=37aad61d36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DSK publication<\/a>&nbsp;(available only in German).<br>According to the DSK, this procedure should guarantee a comprehensible, transparent and case-by-case form of fine allocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019, the Conference of Independent Federal and State Data Protection Supervisory Authorities (DSK) drew up a concept for the calculation<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=452\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}