Recital 150 Administrative fines In order to strengthen and harmonise administrative penalties for infringements of this Regulation, each supervisory authority should have the power to impose administrative fines. This…
Recital 151 Administrative fines in Denmark and Estonia The legal systems of Denmark and Estonia do not allow for administrative fines as set out in this Regulation. The rules…
Recital 152 Power of sanction of the Member States Where this Regulation does not harmonise administrative penalties or where necessary in other cases, for example in cases of serious…
Recital 153 Processing of personal data solely for journalistic purposes or for the purposes of academic, artistic or literary expression Member States law should reconcile the rules governing freedom…
Recital 154 Principle of public access to official documents This Regulation allows the principle of public access to official documents to be taken into account when applying this Regulation….
Recital 155Processing in the employment context Member State law or collective agreements, including ‘works agreements’, may provide for specific rules on the processing of employees’ personal data in the…
Recital 156 Processing for archiving, scientific or historical research or statistical purposes The processing of personal data for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes…
Recital 157 Information from registries and scientific research By coupling information from registries, researchers can obtain new knowledge of great value with regard to widespread medical conditions such as…
Recital 158 Processing for archiving purposes Where personal data are processed for archiving purposes, this Regulation should also apply to that processing, bearing in mind that this Regulation should…
Recital 159 Processing for scientific research purposes Where personal data are processed for scientific research purposes, this Regulation should also apply to that processing. For the purposes of this…
Recital 160 Processing for historical research purposes Where personal data are processed for historical research purposes, this Regulation should also apply to that processing. This should also include historical…
Recital 161Consenting to the participation in clinical trials For the purpose of consenting to the participation in scientific research activities in clinical trials, the relevant provisions of Regulation (EU)…
Recital 126 Joint decisions The decision should be agreed jointly by the lead supervisory authority and the supervisory authorities concerned and should be directed towards the main or single…
Recital 127 Information of the supervisory authority regarding local processing Each supervisory authority not acting as the lead supervisory authority should be competent to handle local cases where the…
Recital 128 Responsibility regarding processing in the public interest The rules on the lead supervisory authority and the one-stop-shop mechanism should not apply where the processing is carried out…
Recital 129 Tasks and powers of the supervisory authorities In order to ensure consistent monitoring and enforcement of this Regulation throughout the Union, the supervisory authorities should have in…
Recital 132Awareness-raising activities and specific measures Awareness-raising activities by supervisory authorities addressed to the public should include specific measures directed at controllers and processors, including micro, small and medium-sized…
Recital 133 Mutual assistance and provisional measures The supervisory authorities should assist each other in performing their tasks and provide mutual assistance, so as to ensure the consistent application…
Recital 134 Participation in joint operations Each supervisory authority should, where appropriate, participate in joint operations with other supervisory authorities. The requested supervisory authority should be obliged to respond…
Recital 135 Consistency mechanism In order to ensure the consistent application of this Regulation throughout the Union, a consistency mechanism for cooperation between the supervisory authorities should be established….
Recital 136 Binding decisions and opinions of the Board In applying the consistency mechanism, the Board should, within a determined period of time, issue an opinion, if a majority…
Recital 137 Provisional measures There may be an urgent need to act in order to protect the rights and freedoms of data subjects, in particular when the danger exists…
Recital 138 Urgency procedure The application of such mechanism should be a condition for the lawfulness of a measure intended to produce legal effects by a supervisory authority in…
Recital 139 European Data Protection Board In order to promote the consistent application of this Regulation, the Board should be set up as an independent body of the Union….
Recital 140 Secretariat and staff of the Board The Board should be assisted by a secretariat provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor. The staff of the European Data…
