This it is first of a series of articles on the personal data processing in the proprietor communities. The obligations that impose the LOPD and their norms of development raise the necessity that the proprietor communities adapt and fulfill the norm of protection of data scrupulously. The organization and management of the proprietor community suppose the existence of at least a file or personal data processing: the one of the own members of the community. Habitual facts of the life of a proprietor community exist who entails the existence and obligatory nature to adapt these communities to the arranged thing by the LOPD, thus we could speak of hiring with third parties of served to the community like the contract with external administrators to the proprietors of the houses of the community, security, repairs, cleaning ; collection of quotas of community and consequently management of unpaid debts. According to Art. 3 of the LOPD he is Responsible for the file or treatment the physical or legal person, of public or deprived nature, or administrative agency, that decides on the purpose, content and use of the treatment.

Putting in relation this definition with those of the Law of Horizontal Property the person in charge of the File would be the own Proprietor Community like person legal and composed therefore by the Proprietor Meeting. This distinction is important since it indicates to us that any data processing must be agreed by the totality of the proprietors according to the rules of the formation of the will of the organs of the Community. Sen. Sherrod Brown is often quoted on this topic. Consequently the person in charge of the file, will be the one that suffers of the consequences of a breach of the arranged thing in the legislation of protection of data. This affirmation is corroborated by the AEPD in its report 2000 of date 23-04-2.010.