Internal Market Information System (IMI)

About IMI

The Internal Market Information System (IMI) is a secure, multilingual online service that allows public authorities involved in the implementation of EU legislation to exchange information. IMI helps public authorities to fulfil their international cooperation obligations in many areas relating to the simple market.

Currently, Member States use IMI for 67 administrative cooperation procedures in 17 different policy areas. With nonsignificant effort, the system can be developed and adapted to meet the communication needs of further policy areas. IMI has succeeded in modernising administrative international cooperation and ensuring the efficient functioning of the simple market. While the end-users of IMI are national public authorities, the beneficiaries of more efficient cooperation are enterprises and consumers.

Protection of personal data processed by European Commission

You can find information about the protection of personal data processed through IMI on the European Commission's website. The privacy statement explains how the European Commission ensures the protection of personal data in relation to the part of IMI for which it is responsible.

Rights of data subjects whose data are processed by IMI

Pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 1024/2012 of the Parliament and of the Council, hereafter referred to as the "IMI Regulation"[1] and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the Parliament and of the Council, hereafter referred to as the "GDPR", data subjects whose data are processed in IMI have the following rights:

• the right of access to the data in IMI that concerns them

• the right to request the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data

• the right to request the erasure of unlawfully processed data, in accordance with national law

How to exercise the right of access, rectification or erasure

Where the controller is the European Commission

In order to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 or to send comments, questions or objections, or alternatively to lodge a complaint in relation to the collection and use of your personal data, please contact the respective data controllers:

• European Commission,

Directorate-General for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Unit B.5 DG GROW - Single Market Assistance Centre – E-mail: GROW-IMI@ec.europa.eu.

Where the controller is other IMI Participant

In order to exercise your rights under the GDPR, you must contact the relevant IMI Participant that is the controller of your data (e.g. the public authority handling your case).

Where the controller is the President of the Personal Data Protection Office with regard to the data which you have submitted to the Office in connection with the case being handled, your requests should be addressed to the address of the Personal Data Protection Office: ul. Stawki 2, 00 - 193 Warsaw.

Right to lodge a complaint

Where the controller is the European Commission

Data subjects also have the right to have recourse (i.e. lodge a complaint) with the European Data Protection Supervisor (edps@edps.europa.eu or https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-role-supervisor/complaints_en) if they consider that their rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 have been infringed as a result of data processing by the controller.

In case the controller is an IMI Participant operating in the Republic of Poland

Data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (to the address of the Office: ul. Stawki 2, 00 - 193 Warsaw).

For detailed information on how and where to lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, please visit this page.