Welcome to gdpr-info.eu. Here you can find the official PDF of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) in the current version of the OJ L 119, 04.05.2016; cor. OJ L 127, …

For the purposes of this Regulation: ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, …

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Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies: the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific …

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The term ‘personal data’ is the entryway to the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Only if a processing of data concerns personal data, the General Data Protection …

The basic requirements for the effectiveness of a valid legal consent are defined in Article 7 and specified further in recital 32 of the GDPR. Consent must be freely given, specific, informed and …

The final interpretation of the GDPR is exclusively within the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. However, the opinions of the supervisory authorities are of considerable practical relevance …

Considering the following reasons the articles of the GDPR have been adopted. These are the latest and final recitals of April 27th 2016.

National authorities can or must assess fines for specific data protection violations in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.