DESPRE PUBLICAREA TEZELOR DE DOCTORAT
ABOUT THE PUBLICATION OF DOCTORAL THESIS IN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian Ministry of Education and Research has recently issued an official communication addressed to higher education institutions organizing doctoral university studies, which informed them that the database in which all the doctoral theses defended since 2016 are indexed is to be made public. This communication, after mentioning the protection of personal data in the context of the publication of the doctoral theses and the possibility of the data subject to oppose the data processing for well-founded reasons, states that the reasoned refusal must be submitted until 23 March 2020 to the higher education institutions where the doctoral thesis has been publicly defended. Thus, at first sight, former doctoral students could prevent the publication of the digital form of their thesis on the online national platform relying on the right to object under Article 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation. However, as we will conclude from the analysis of the incident legislation, the option not to have the thesis made available on the national online platform has no basis in Regulation (EU) 2016/679, but in the Romanian Law on National Education and in the Law on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.

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