The document outlines the common legal framework for HYDROPTICS’s consortium to take into consideration during research and realization phases of the project. It provides a first guidance on compliance with privacy and data protection issues that might arise during the project. The deliverable also identifies and describes the risks in the above-mentioned areas that might arise out of the project and the measures to mitigate the risks. Additionally, the deliverable presents the methodology to deal with impact, ethical and liability in order to generate a framework to be used in the project as baseline for the HYDROPTICS’s project.
Finally, the document describes requirements of conducting impact assessment with regard to data protection and privacy issues. Requirements of GDPR framework and how Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is going to address them for the specific needs of HYDROPTICS project are addressed, starting from the definition of the DPIA. Furthermore, criteria and specific situations that will require DPIA to be conducted in the HYDROPTICS project are addressed.