Apply for approval of research and work with genetically modified organisms and gene therapy

If you have any questions regarding our processing of your data, please feel free to contact our data protection officer.

You can contact our Data Protection Officer in the following ways:

By e-mail: dpo@bm.dk

By telephone + 45: 50 91 77 68

By letter: Att.: Databeskyttelsesrådgiver. Beskæftigelsesministeriet, Ved Stranden 8, 1061 København K.

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

Virksomheder skal anmelde laboratorier og projekter med genteknologi til Arbejdstilsynet. Dette skal ske med henblik på, at Arbejdstilsynet, i samarbejde med Miljøstyrelsen, står for godkendelse af disse laboratorier og projekter. Formålet er endvidere, at vi kan identificere, hvem der arbejder med genteknologisk forskning eller har faciliteter til dette arbejde.

Companies must report laboratories and projects with genetic technology to the Danish Working Environment Authority. This must be done, as the Danish Working Environment Authority, in collaboration with the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), handles approvals of such laboratories and projects. The purpose is also that we can identify who works with genetic engineering research or has facilities for this work.

The basis in law for our processing of your personal data ensues from:

Bekendtgørelse om genteknologi og arbejdsmiljø, Arbejdstilsynets bekendtgørelse nr. 910 af 11. september 2008 med senere ændringer.

Executive order no. 910 of September 11th 2008 concerning gene technology and work environment.

Forvaltningslovens § 7 (by forwarding to the correct authority)

The Public Administration Act § 7 (when forwarding to the correct authority).

Artikel 6, stk. 1, litra e, i Europa-Parlamentets og Rådets forordning (EU) 2016/679 af 27. april 2016 om beskyttelse af fysiske personer i forbindelse med behandling af personoplysninger og om fri udveksling af sådanne oplysninger og om ophævelse af direktiv 95/46/EF (databeskyttelsesforordningen).

Article 6, paragraph Article 1 (e) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46 / EC (Data Protection Regulation).

We process the following categories of personal data about you:

General information including:

Identification information regarding individuals who are involved in the work and companies that are responsible for the work / facilities, including:

Company name and address.

Name, telephone number, e-mail and education of people who work with the genetic technology in the company.

We disclose your personal data or make it available to the following recipients:

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Miljøstyrelsen).

We will not transfer personal data to recipients outside the EU and the EEA.

Companies, who wish to obtain approval of laboratories or projects with genetic technology, provide the data.

Currently, the Danish Work Environment Authority cannot say how long your data will be stored in connection with this processing of applications. However, we can inform you that we will emphasize that we only store your data as long as it is necessary to fulfil our obligations in accordance with Danish law.

The approval of applications will not be subject to any automatic assessment and profiling.

If personal information about you has been submitted, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This can be done by contacting us.

If you choose to withdraw your consent, it does not affect the lawfulness of our processing of your personal data based on your previously given consent and up to the time of the withdrawal. Therefore, if you withdraw your consent, it will only take effect from this time.

As the Danish Work Environment Authority are gathering most personal data on the basis of our legislative obligations in accordance to Danish law, most of the collecting of data will not be based on a specific consent from you. When this is the case, a withdrawal of consent will rarely result in the Danish Work Environment Authority terminating any gathering or treating of your data. This is because your rights to not have data gathered and treated must be weighed against the countries right to a safe work environment.

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation, you have several rights in relation to our processing of data concerning you. If you wish to exercise your rights, you must contact us.  

Right of access 

• You have the right to obtain access to the data we process concerning you, together with a number of other data.  

 Right to rectification (correction) 

• You have the right to have incorrect data concerning you rectified.  

 Right to erasure 

• In special cases, you have the right to have data concerning you erased before the time of our ordinary general erasure.  

 Right to restriction of processing 

• In certain cases, you have the right to restrict the extent to which we process your personal data. If you have the right to restrict processing, we will henceforth only process information with your consent – with the exception of storage – or if a legal claim can be established, exercised or defended, or to protect a person or important public interests.   

Right to object 

• In certain cases, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.  

 Right to transmit data (data portability)  

• In certain cases, you are entitled to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to have this personal data transmitted from one data controller to another without hindrance. 

You can read more about your rights in the Danish Data Protection Agency's guidance on rights of data subjects, available at www.datatilsynet.dk.

You have the right to complain to the Danish Data Protection Agency if you are not satisfied with the way in which we process your personal data. The contact details of the Danish Data Protection Agency are available at www.datatilsynet.dk.