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  • 1. The protection of natural persons in relation to the processing of...
  • 2. The principles of, and rules on the protection of natural persons...
  • 3. Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (4)...
  • 4. The processing of personal data should be designed to serve mankind....
  • 5. The economic and social integration resulting from the functioning of...
  • 6. Rapid technological developments and globalisation have brought new...
  • 7. Those developments require a strong and more coherent data protection...
  • 8. Where this Regulation provides for specifications or restrictions of...
  • 9. The objectives and principles of Directive 95/46/EC remain sound, but...
  • 10. In order to ensure a consistent and high level of protection of...
  • 11. Effective protection of personal data throughout the Union requires...
  • 12. Article 16(2) TFEU mandates the European Parliament and the Council...
  • 13. In order to ensure a consistent level of protection for natural...
  • 14. The protection afforded by this Regulation should apply to natural...
  • 15. In order to prevent creating a serious risk of circumvention, the...
  • 16. This Regulation does not apply to issues of protection of fundamental...
  • 17. Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the...
  • 18. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by...
  • 19. The protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of...
  • 20. While this Regulation applies, inter alia, to the activities of...
  • 21. This Regulation is without prejudice to the application of Directive...
  • 22. Any processing of personal data in the context of the activities of...
  • 23. In order to ensure that natural persons are not deprived of the...
  • 24. The processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union...
  • 25. Where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law,...
  • 26. The principles of data protection should apply to any information...
  • 27. This Regulation does not apply to the personal data of deceased...
  • 28. The application of pseudonymisation to personal data can reduce the...
  • 29. In order to create incentives to apply pseudonymisation when...
  • 30. Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by...
  • 31. Public authorities to which personal data are disclosed in accordance...
  • 32. Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a...
  • 33. It is often not possible to fully identify the purpose of personal...
  • 34. Genetic data should be defined as personal data relating to the...
  • 35. Personal data concerning health should include all data pertaining to...
  • 36. The main establishment of a controller in the Union should be the...
  • 37. A group of undertakings should cover a controlling undertaking and...
  • 38. Children merit specific protection with regard to their personal...
  • 39. Any processing of personal data should be lawful and fair. It should...
  • 40. In order for processing to be lawful, personal data should be...
  • 41. Where this Regulation refers to a legal basis or a legislative...
  • 42. Where processing is based on the data subject's consent, the...
  • 43. In order to ensure that consent is freely given, consent should not...
  • 44. Processing should be lawful where it is necessary in the context of a...
  • 45. Where processing is carried out in accordance with a legal obligation...
  • 46. The processing of personal data should also be regarded to be lawful...
  • 47. The legitimate interests of a controller, including those of a...
  • 48. Controllers that are part of a group of undertakings or institutions...
  • 49. The processing of personal data to the extent strictly necessary and...
  • 50. The processing of personal data for purposes other than those for...
  • 51. Personal data which are, by their nature, particularly sensitive in...
  • 52. Derogating from the prohibition on processing special categories of...
  • 53. Special categories of personal data which merit higher protection...
  • 54. The processing of special categories of personal data may be...
  • 55. Moreover, the processing of personal data by official authorities for...
  • 56. Where in the course of electoral activities, the operation of the...
  • 57. If the personal data processed by a controller do not permit the...
  • 58. The principle of transparency requires that any information addressed...
  • 59. Modalities should be provided for facilitating the exercise of the...
  • 60. The principles of fair and transparent processing require that the...
  • 61. The information in relation to the processing of personal data...
  • 62. However, it is not necessary to impose the obligation to provide...
  • 63. A data subject should have the right of access to personal data which...
  • 64. The controller should use all reasonable measures to verify the...
  • 65. A data subject should have the right to have personal data concerning...
  • 66. To strengthen the right to be forgotten in the online environment,...
  • 67. Methods by which to restrict the processing of personal data could...
  • 68. To further strengthen the control over his or her own data, where the...
  • 69. Where personal data might lawfully be processed because processing is...
  • 70. Where personal data are processed for the purposes of direct...
  • 71. The data subject should have the right not to be subject to a...
  • 72. Profiling is subject to the rules of this Regulation governing the...
  • 73. Restrictions concerning specific principles and the rights of...
  • 74. The responsibility and liability of the controller for any processing...
  • 75. The risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, of varying...
  • 76. The likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of...
  • 77. Guidance on the implementation of appropriate measures and on the...
  • 78. The protection of the rights and freedoms of natural persons with...
  • 79. The protection of the rights and freedoms of data subjects as well as...
  • 80. Where a controller or a processor not established in the Union is...
  • 81. To ensure compliance with the requirements of this Regulation in...
  • 82. In order to demonstrate compliance with this Regulation, the...
  • 83. In order to maintain security and to prevent processing in...
  • 84. In order to enhance compliance with this Regulation where processing...
  • 85. A personal data breach may, if not addressed in an appropriate and...
  • 86. The controller should communicate to the data subject a personal data...
  • 87. It should be ascertained whether all appropriate technological...
  • 88. In setting detailed rules concerning the format and procedures...
  • 89. Directive 95/46/EC provided for a general obligation to notify the...
  • 90. In such cases, a data protection impact assessment should be carried...
  • 91. This should in particular apply to large-scale processing operations...
  • 92. There are circumstances under which it may be reasonable and...
  • 93. In the context of the adoption of the Member State law on which the...
  • 94. Where a data protection impact assessment indicates that the...
  • 95. The processor should assist the controller, where necessary and upon...
  • 96. A consultation of the supervisory authority should also take place in...
  • 97. Where the processing is carried out by a public authority, except for...
  • 98. Associations or other bodies representing categories of controllers...
  • 99. When drawing up a code of conduct, or when amending or extending such...
  • 100. In order to enhance transparency and compliance with this Regulation,...
  • 101. Flows of personal data to and from countries outside the Union and...
  • 102. This Regulation is without prejudice to international agreements...
  • 103. The Commission may decide with effect for the entire Union that a...
  • 104. In line with the fundamental values on which the Union is founded, in...
  • 105. Apart from the international commitments the third country or...
  • 106. The Commission should monitor the functioning of decisions on the...
  • 107. The Commission may recognise that a third country, a territory or a...
  • 108. In the absence of an adequacy decision, the controller or processor...
  • 109. The possibility for the controller or processor to use standard...
  • 110. A group of undertakings, or a group of enterprises engaged in a joint...
  • 111. Provisions should be made for the possibility for transfers in...
  • 112. Those derogations should in particular apply to data transfers...
  • 113. Transfers which can be qualified as not repetitive and that only...
  • 114. In any case, where the Commission has taken no decision on the...
  • 115. Some third countries adopt laws, regulations and other legal acts...
  • 116. When personal data moves across borders outside the Union it may put...
  • 117. The establishment of supervisory authorities in Member States,...
  • 118. The independence of supervisory authorities should not mean that the...
  • 119. Where a Member State establishes several supervisory authorities, it...
  • 120. Each supervisory authority should be provided with the financial and...
  • 121. The general conditions for the member or members of the supervisory...
  • 122. Each supervisory authority should be competent on the territory of...
  • 123. The supervisory authorities should monitor the application of the...
  • 124. Where the processing of personal data takes place in the context of...
  • 125. The lead authority should be competent to adopt binding decisions...
  • 126. The decision should be agreed jointly by the lead supervisory...
  • 127. Each supervisory authority not acting as the lead supervisory...
  • 128. The rules on the lead supervisory authority and the one-stop-shop...
  • 129. In order to ensure consistent monitoring and enforcement of this...
  • 130. Where the supervisory authority with which the complaint has been...
  • 131. Where another supervisory authority should act as a lead supervisory...
  • 132. Awareness-raising activities by supervisory authorities addressed to...
  • 133. The supervisory authorities should assist each other in performing...
  • 134. Each supervisory authority should, where appropriate, participate in...
  • 135. In order to ensure the consistent application of this Regulation...
  • 136. In applying the consistency mechanism, the Board should, within a...
  • 137. There may be an urgent need to act in order to protect the rights and...
  • 138. The application of such mechanism should be a condition for the...
  • 139. In order to promote the consistent application of this Regulation,...
  • 140. The Board should be assisted by a secretariat provided by the...
  • 141. Every data subject should have the right to lodge a complaint with a...
  • 142. Where a data subject considers that his or her rights under this...
  • 143. Any natural or legal person has the right to bring an action for...
  • 144. Where a court seized of proceedings against a decision by a...
  • 145. For proceedings against a controller or processor, the plaintiff...
  • 146. The controller or processor should compensate any damage which a...
  • 147. Where specific rules on jurisdiction are contained in this...
  • 148. In order to strengthen the enforcement of the rules of this...
  • 149. Member States should be able to lay down the rules on criminal...
  • 150. In order to strengthen and harmonise administrative penalties for...
  • 151. The legal systems of Denmark and Estonia do not allow for...
  • 152. Where this Regulation does not harmonise administrative penalties or...
  • 153. Member States law should reconcile the rules governing freedom of...
  • 154. This Regulation allows the principle of public access to official...
  • 155. Member State law or collective agreements, including ‘works...
  • 156. The processing of personal data for archiving purposes in the public...
  • 157. By coupling information from registries, researchers can obtain new...
  • 158. Where personal data are processed for archiving purposes, this...
  • 159. Where personal data are processed for scientific research purposes,...
  • 160. Where personal data are processed for historical research purposes,...
  • 161. For the purpose of consenting to the participation in scientific...
  • 162. Where personal data are processed for statistical purposes, this...
  • 163. The confidential information which the Union and national statistical...
  • 164. As regards the powers of the supervisory authorities to obtain from...
  • 165. This Regulation respects and does not prejudice the status under...
  • 166. In order to fulfil the objectives of this Regulation, namely to...
  • 167. In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this...
  • 168. The examination procedure should be used for the adoption of...
  • 169. The Commission should adopt immediately applicable implementing acts...
  • 170. Since the objective of this Regulation, namely to ensure an...
  • 171. Directive 95/46/EC should be repealed by this Regulation. Processing...
  • 172. The European Data Protection Supervisor was consulted in accordance...
  • 173. This Regulation should apply to all matters concerning the protection...
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Recital 27

Recital 27

General Data Protection Regulation · UE 2016/679

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This Regulation does not apply to the personal data of deceased persons. Member States may provide for rules regarding the processing of personal data of deceased persons.

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