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ILO - International Labour Organization, based in Geneva, Switzerland seeks to recruit a Legal Officer. The Off ice of the Legal Adviser/Office of Legal Services (JUR) provides a wide range of legal services to the International Labour Organization and its various organs (in particular the Office, the International Labour Conference and the Governing Body of the ILO).   The work is carried out by a small, dedicated team at ILO headquarters. The unit reports directly to the Director-General.  It is responsible for furthering and defending the legal interests of the Organization. The Development Cooperation position of Legal Officer will report to the Legal Adviser.  This position will provide the Office of the Legal Adviser with the necessary capacity to provide legal support for the increasing development cooperation demand from headquarters and field units of the ILO. The position will better enable JUR to respond in a sound and timely manner to the demands placed upon it. Educati

The Greek Supervisory Authority for Data Protection imposed on the Greek Ministry of the Interior,  an administrative fine totalling EUR 400,000 and on a Member of European Parliament an administrative fine totalling EUR 40,000 for infringements of GDPR. The Hellenic Data Protection Authority received a large number of complaints regarding unsolicited political communication via e-mail sent on 1/3/2024 and entitled "100 days before the European elections", by Member of European Parliament Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou. Following this, the Authority investigated the case ex officio, exercising immediately its powers of investigation and auditing the bodies involved. Following a series of on-the-spot audits and the receipt of evidence and data in the context of the audit, it was found that a file containing personal data of all registered Greek expatriate voters for the June 2023 elections, for which the Hellenic Ministry of the Interior is the controller, and for which the leg

According to ECJ's Judgment in Case C-603/22 (M.S. and Others), minors subject to criminal proceedings must have the practical and effective opportunity to be assisted by a lawyer. Such assistance must be offered at the latest by the time they are first questioned by the police. Criminal proceedings against three minors were brought before a Polish court. They were charged with having broken into the buildings of a disused former holiday centre. During those proceedings, it was found that the suspects had been questioned by the police in the absence of a lawyer. Before they were first questioned, neither they nor their parents had been informed of their rights or the conduct of the proceedings. The court-appointed lawyers therefore requested that previous statements made by the suspects be removed from the file as evidence.  The national court, questioning the effectiveness of the procedural guarantees in place for minors during the pretrial phase, made a reference to the Court of