The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer and a copyright notice . The purpose of the Charter is to show that Europe is a Europe of citizens.
Citizens have to know and understand what their rights are.
The Charter puts together important rights, which are to be found in a number of other documents. If the question is, does the Charter include anything original, then the answer is definitely it does. The Charter has not only to put together rights that are very traditional, such as those found in the ECHR, but also to ask whether there are new rights crucial for the citizens which have to be included to show that the EU is a living union, reacting to changes in society and acknowledging the rights of citizens. The Article concerning personal data indicates the second approach. At no time before were so many personal data collected and used for so many different purposes.