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Supervision and enforcement Environment

Focusing inspectors on companies' compliance with environmental laws.

Last change on 12th of July 2024, at 9:40 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0
Publication category
Impactful algorithms
Impact assessment
DPIA, ...
Status
In use

General information

Theme

Public Order and Safety

Begin date

-

Contact information

algoritmeregister@utrecht.nl

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Focusing inspectors on companies' compliance with environmental laws

Considerations

Results Uthiek Assessment: the approach on enforcement of environment-related issues allows us to identify in a better and more targeted way where there might be violations at companies. This allows us to perform our statutory duty in the right way and this contributes to the value Power Relations. This only gives us a signal and the action perspective for enforcers to explore the situation at the relevant catering establishment. By doing so, we provide enforcers with targeted information for enforcement, increasing his freedom of choice and contributing to the value Autonomy. Better and more targeted enforcement of the Liquor and Catering Act contributes to safer and healthier conditions for visitors to the catering industry. Hereby we contribute to the value Safety and Health.

Human intervention

The algorithm (with direct impact on Utrecht residents and their living environment) only serves as a source of information for an employee, who takes the right follow-up step based on this information and the context of the situation. This principle is included in our Utrecht framework Internal Guidelines for Algorithm Application.

Risk management

The Utrecht data scientists, Information and Process Advisors (IPA) and Decentralised Information Security Officers (DISO) within the Utrecht municipality have a controlling and monitoring role in the application of the algorithm, in addition to the employees directly involved. By doing so, we want to prevent the following risks from occurring:


- data leak by making personal data of Utrecht residents publicly available

- algorithm takes a decision completely independently, without the intervention of an employee and without interpreting the relevant context of the situation

- 'function creep' regarding data when applying the algorithm, causing the algorithm to give a distorted picture of what is going on. This can occur because the same type of data is used when applying the algorithm, and the algorithm uses that as confirmation of what comes out as information

Impact assessment

  • Utrechts Uthiek Assessment
  • Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)

Operations

Data

Entrepreneurs' data and energy labels

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