D2.3: Guidelines for handling ethical, legal issues, and data protection

<p>The Deliverable D2.3 – STEP Guidelines for Ethical, legal issues and data protection is part of the Work Package 2 Requirements and Analysis. The purpose of this deliverable is to present EU level and national based regulatory frameworks for potential ethical issues that may arise in the conduction of the STEP project. Ethical issues presented in this deliverable have been identified by pilot and technical partners and guidelines for the STEP platform are provided. The intended audience for this deliverable is preliminarily the project partners as the work contained in this document will support the implementation of STEP. However, the research work conducted for the EU regulatory framework on privacy & data protection, national frameworks of pilot countries, ethical analysis of e-Government, cloud and participation based STEP platform will be of interest for a wider audience (e.g. policy makers, researchers, the public).