Regulation 22 Processing of information and the purposes for which processing may be carried out

(1)

This regulation relates to information notified or reported to the Welsh Ministers, or a person authorised by the Welsh Ministers, under regulations 3(2), 4 or 21.

(2)

The purposes for which the information referred to in paragraph (1) may be processed^f1 are—

(a)

helping persons in agri-food supply chains^f2 to manage risks or market volatility,

(b)

promoting transparency or fairness in agri-food supply chains, and

(c)

monitoring, or analysing, markets connected with agri-food supply chains.

(3)

The types of processing which may be carried out with the information referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a)

collection, recording, organisation, structuring or storage,

(b)

adaptation or alteration,

(c)

retrieval, consultation or use,

(d)

disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available,

(e)

alignment or combination, or

(f)

restriction, erasure or destruction.

(4)

Information provided under regulation 21 may only be disclosed under paragraph (3)(d) in anonymised form.

(5)

Information provided under regulations 3(2) or 4 may be disclosed under paragraph (3)(d) in any form.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: “Processing” in relation to information is defined in section 31(11) of the Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 and means “an operation, or set of operations, which is performed on information, or on sets of information”.
f2: “Agri-food supply chain” is defined in section 26 of the Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023.