GDPR, Regulation (EU) 2016/679
Protection of personal data and free movement of such data.
What we read it for
The act our reading of public sources is measured against: lawful basis, purpose limitation and the rights of the person a page mentions.
Identity
| Type | Regulation |
| Identifier | EU 2016/679 |
| CELEX | 32016R0679 |
| Adopted | 2016-04-27 |
| In force | 2016-05-24 |
| Applies from | 2018-05-25 |
99 articles in the base act
Structure
| Chapter | Act | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| I | General provisions | 1–4 |
| II | Principles | 5–11 |
| III | Rights of the data subject | 12–23 |
| IV | Controller and processor | 24–43 |
| V | Transfers of personal data to third countries or international organisations | 44–50 |
| VI | Independent supervisory authorities | 51–59 |
| VII | Cooperation and consistency | 60–76 |
| VIII | Remedies, liability and penalties | 77–84 |
| IX | Provisions relating to specific processing situations | 85–91 |
| X | Delegated acts and implementing acts | 92–93 |
| XI | Final provisions | 94–99 |
Chapter headings from the official English text.
Articles
99 articles are read into the register, one address each.
- 1 · Subject-matter and objectives
- 2 · Material scope
- 3 · Territorial scope
- 4 · Definitions
- 5 · Principles relating to processing of personal data
- 6 · Lawfulness of processing
- 7 · Conditions for consent
- 8 · Conditions applicable to child's consent in relation to information society services
- 9 · Processing of special categories of personal data
- 10 · Processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences
- 11 · Processing which does not require identification
- 12 · Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject
- 13 · Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject
- 14 · Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject
- 15 · Right of access by the data subject
- 16 · Right to rectification
- 17 · Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)
- 18 · Right to restriction of processing
- 19 · Notification obligation regarding rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing
- 20 · Right to data portability
- 21 · Right to object
- 22 · Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
- 23 · Restrictions
- 24 · Responsibility of the controller
- 25 · Data protection by design and by default
- 26 · Joint controllers
- 27 · Representatives of controllers or processors not established in the Union
- 28 · Processor
- 29 · Processing under the authority of the controller or processor
- 30 · Records of processing activities
- 31 · Cooperation with the supervisory authority
- 32 · Security of processing
- 33 · Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority
- 34 · Communication of a personal data breach to the data subject
- 35 · Data protection impact assessment
- 36 · Prior consultation
- 37 · Designation of the data protection officer
- 38 · Position of the data protection officer
- 39 · Tasks of the data protection officer
- 40 · Codes of conduct
- 41 · Monitoring of approved codes of conduct
- 42 · Certification
- 43 · Certification bodies
- 44 · General principle for transfers
- 45 · Transfers on the basis of an adequacy decision
- 46 · Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards
- 47 · Binding corporate rules
- 48 · Transfers or disclosures not authorised by Union law
- 49 · Derogations for specific situations
- 50 · International cooperation for the protection of personal data
- 51 · Supervisory authority
- 52 · Independence
- 53 · General conditions for the members of the supervisory authority
- 54 · Rules on the establishment of the supervisory authority
- 55 · Competence
- 56 · Competence of the lead supervisory authority
- 57 · Tasks
- 58 · Powers
- 59 · Activity reports
- 60 · Cooperation between the lead supervisory authority and the other supervisory authorities concerned
- 61 · Mutual assistance
- 62 · Joint operations of supervisory authorities
- 63 · Consistency mechanism
- 64 · Opinion of the Board
- 65 · Dispute resolution by the Board
- 66 · Urgency procedure
- 67 · Exchange of information
- 68 · European Data Protection Board
- 69 · Independence
- 70 · Tasks of the Board
- 71 · Reports
- 72 · Procedure
- 73 · Chair
- 74 · Tasks of the Chair
- 75 · Secretariat
- 76 · Confidentiality
- 77 · Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
- 78 · Right to an effective judicial remedy against a supervisory authority
- 79 · Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor
- 80 · Representation of data subjects
- 81 · Suspension of proceedings
- 82 · Right to compensation and liability
- 83 · General conditions for imposing administrative fines
- 84 · Penalties
- 85 · Processing and freedom of expression and information
- 86 · Processing and public access to official documents
- 87 · Processing of the national identification number
- 88 · Processing in the context of employment
- 89 · Safeguards and derogations relating to processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes
- 90 · Obligations of secrecy
- 91 · Existing data protection rules of churches and religious associations
- 92 · Exercise of the delegation
- 93 · Committee procedure
- 94 · Repeal of Directive 95/46/EC
- 95 · Relationship with Directive 2002/58/EC
- 96 · Relationship with previously concluded Agreements
- 97 · Commission reports
- 98 · Review of other Union legal acts on data protection
- 99 · Entry into force and application
Language versions
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Norwegian is not an official EU language. Norwegian readers use the national register.
National law
One line per country. A line exists only when a primary source has been read; otherwise the national register is linked instead.
| National law | Identifier | Official text |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden: Lag med kompletterande bestämmelser till EU:s dataskyddsförordning | SFS 2018:218 | Official text |
| Norway: Lov om behandling av personopplysninger (personopplysningsloven) | LOV-2018-06-15-38 | Official text |
| Denmark: Lov om supplerende bestemmelser til forordning om beskyttelse af fysiske personer (databeskyttelsesloven) | LOV nr 502 af 23/05/2018 | Official text |
| Finland: Tietosuojalaki | 1050/2018 | Official text |
| Germany: Bundesdatenschutzgesetz | BDSG | Official text |
| United Kingdom: Data Protection Act 2018 | 2018 c. 12 | Official text |
National implementing measures on EUR-Lex
Supervision
Official text
Who does this apply to
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EU statistics this act touches
- Employment rate, ages 20 to 64 (Art. 88): Member states may set their own rules for employee data.
- Unemployment rate (Art. 88): Member states may set their own rules for employee data.
- Unemployment rate, monthly (Art. 88): Member states may set their own rules for employee data.
- Youth unemployment rate, ages 15 to 24 (Art. 88): Member states may set their own rules for employee data.
- Hourly labour cost (Art. 88): Member states may set their own rules for employee data.
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