2012
Are there mechanisms in place to collect data on racial discrimination in line with data protection legislation as an effective means of, monitoring and reviewing policies and practices to combat racial discrimination and promote racial equality?
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Austria
No.
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Bulgaria
No.
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Cyprus
No. Very few recording mechanisms which work poorly. Its data is usually unavailable in the public sphere.
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Denmark
No.
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Finland
Yes, there are mechanisms in place to collect data on racial discrimination.
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France
Partially
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Germany
No. There is no systematic data collection.
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Greece
Yes. Police Directorates and specially assigned Prosecutor in addition to civil society data collection mechanisms.
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Hungary
no
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Ireland
There is no longer a national mechanism in place to collect data on racial discrimination since the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism closed in December 2008. This data is collected solely by NGOs and the police force. The Central Statistics Office does however publish statistics on discrimination in its Quarterly National Household Survey on Equality.
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Italy
Yes
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Poland
Partially.
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Portugal
There are some mechanisms in place to collect data on complaints of racial discrimination, but they do not allow to monitor and review policies and pratices to combat racial discrimination.
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Romania
NO. The data on complaints recorded by the national equality body are not enough to monitor and review practices to combat racial discrimination and promote racial equality effectively.
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Slovenia
No. In general, data on race and ethnicity of a person are consiered to be sensitive data. Collection of such data is only allowed with a consent of an individual concerned.
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Spain
Until the creation in 2010 of the Network of Agencies to Support Victims of Discrimination, there was no mechanism to collect data on racial discrimination.
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Sweden
Yes, but as a main rule according to the Swedish Personal Data Act (1998:204), it is prohibited to process personal data that discloses race or ethnic origin.