Recurrent health crises and outbreaks of infectious diseases of international concern have created a specific EU public health policy. Its role was further strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic, ...which triggered the next stage in the integration process of the Member States: the European Health Union. The research is carried out using a literature review method (a review of literature and documents in the field of public health policy and the European Health Union) and a comparative-legal method for comparing EU legal acts on which the Health Union is based (endogenous comparison) and the legal acts of EU and the Republic of Slovenia (exogenous comparison). The findings are examined using a qualitative content analysis method, which allows for meaningful aggregation and use of the data under study to answer the research questions. The European Health Union builds on and extends existing areas of public health and requires greater integration between Member States. One of its most essential pillars is a single information system with a single database to improve the health of individuals, resilience to cross-border health crises, patient mobility, and joint research on the most severe diseases. Member States, including Slovenia, must follow EU public health commitments. As the Slovenian legislative proposal analysis on the digitalization of healthcare shows, this challenging task will also require respect for the institute (safeguards) of other areas of law.
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The General Data Protection Regulation has meant providing the European Union with uniform regulations on data protection and, especially, with regard
to international data transfers. Thus, the RGPD ...has exceeded the previous framework,
has harmonized all the EU Member States and has regulated different legal instruments
related to international transfers of personal data. The current regulation has attempted
to combine the free movement of personal data with the right to data protection: two
highly relevant categories that need to be balanced. This regulation has also served to
boost cross-border flows of personal data and to expand the application of the GDPR in
an indirect way. In short, this matter has been Europeanized, and community protection
has been granted to international data movements. To this is also added the regulation of
the Binding Corporate Rules, an instrument regarding transfers of personal data in international trade and business field. In general, all of this has created a new framework that directly affects the EU’s external relations (trade agreements, international cooperation,
...), and opens the way for the future construction of personal data flows.
El Reglamento General de Protección de Datos ha supuesto dotar a la
Unión Europea de una normativa uniforme en materia de protección de datos y, especialmente, en lo relativo a las transferencias internacionales de datos. Así, el RGPD ha
superado el marco anterior, ha armonizado a todos los Estados miembros de la UE y ha
regulado distintos instrumentos jurídicos relativos a las transferencias internacionales de
datos personales. La actual regulación ha intentado aunar la libertad de circulación de
datos personales con el derecho a la protección de datos: dos categorías de gran relevancia que necesitan de equilibrio. Esta regulación ha servido, además, para impulsar
los flujos transfronterizos de datos personales y para expandir la aplicación del RGPD
de una manera indirecta. En suma, se ha europeizado esta materia y se ha otorgado una protección comunitaria a los movimientos internacionales de datos. A ello se le añade también la regulación de las normas corporativas vinculantes, un instrumento en
lo que respecta a las transferencias de datos personales en el comercio internacional
y el ámbito empresarial. En general, todo ello ha supuesto un nuevo marco que afecta
directamente a las relaciones exteriores de la UE (acuerdos comerciales, cooperación
internacional, etc.), y abre el camino a seguir en la futura construcción de flujos de
datos personales.
