Article 57
Tasks
There is no recital in the Directive related to article 57.
Regulation
Art. 57 1. Without prejudice to other tasks set out under this Regulation, each supervisory authority shall on its territory: (a) monitor and enforce the application of this Regulation; (b) promote public awareness and understanding of the risks, rules, safeguards and rights in relation to processing. Activities addressed specifically to children shall receive specific attention; (c) advise, in accordance with Member State law, the national parliament, the government, and other institutions and bodies on legislative and administrative measures relating to the protection of natural persons' rights and freedoms with regard to processing; (d) promote the awareness of controllers and processors of their obligations under this Regulation; (e) upon request, provide information to any data subject concerning the exercise of their rights under this Regulation and, if appropriate, cooperate with the supervisory authorities in other Member States to that end; (f) handle complaints lodged by a data subject, or by a body, organisation or association in accordance with Article 80, and investigate, to the extent appropriate, the subject matter of the complaint and inform the complainant of the progress and the outcome of the investigation within a reasonable period, in particular if further investigation or coordination with another supervisory authority is necessary; (g) cooperate with, including sharing information and provide mutual assistance to, other supervisory authorities with a view to ensuring the consistency of application and enforcement of this Regulation; (h) conduct investigations on the application of this Regulation, including on the basis of information received from another supervisory authority or other public authority; (i) monitor relevant developments, insofar as they have an impact on the protection of personal data, in particular the development of information and communication technologies and commercial practices; (j) adopt standard contractual clauses referred to in Article 28(8) and in point (d) of Article 46(2); (k) establish and maintain a list in relation to the requirement for data protection impact assessment pursuant to Article 35(4); (l) give advice on the processing operations referred to in Article 36(2); (m) encourage the drawing up of codes of conduct pursuant to Article 40(1) and provide an opinion and approve such codes of conduct which provide sufficient safeguards, pursuant to Article 40(5); (n) encourage the establishment of data protection certification mechanisms and of data protection seals and marks pursuant to Article 42(1), and approve the criteria of certification pursuant to Article 42(5); (o) where applicable, carry out a periodic review of certifications issued in accordance with Article 42(7); (p) draft and publish the criteria for accreditation of a body for monitoring codes of conduct pursuant to Article 41 and of a certification body pursuant to Article 43; (q) conduct the accreditation of a body for monitoring codes of conduct pursuant to Article 41 and of a certification body pursuant to Article 43; (r) authorise contractual clauses and provisions referred to in Article 46(3); (s) approve binding corporate rules pursuant to Article 47; (t) contribute to the activities of the Board; (u) keep internal records of infringements of this Regulation and of measures taken in accordance with Article 58(2); and (v) fulfil any other tasks related to the protection of personal data. 2. Each supervisory authority shall facilitate the submission of complaints referred to in point (f) of paragraph 1 by measures such as a complaint submission form which can also be completed electronically, without excluding other means of communication. 3. The performance of the tasks of each supervisory authority shall be free of charge for the data subject and, where applicable, for the data protection officer. 4. Where requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, the supervisory authority may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs, or refuse to act on the request. The supervisory authority shall bear the burden of demonstrating the manifestly unfounded or excessive character of the request. |
Directive
Art. 28 1. Each Member State shall provide that one or more public authorities are responsible for monitoring the application within its territory of the provisions adopted by the Member States pursuant to this Directive. These authorities shall act with complete independence in exercising the functions entrusted to them. 2. Each Member State shall provide that the supervisory authorities are consulted when drawing up administrative measures or regulations relating to the protection of individuals' rights and freedoms with regard to the processing of personal data. 3. Each authority shall in particular be endowed with: - investigative powers, such as powers of access to data forming the subject-matter of processing operations and powers to collect all the information necessary for the performance of its supervisory duties, - effective powers of intervention, such as, for example, that of delivering opinions before processing operations are carried out, in accordance with Article 20, and ensuring appropriate publication of such opinions, of ordering the blocking, erasure or destruction of data, of imposing a temporary or definitive ban on processing, of warning or admonishing the controller, or that of referring the matter to national parliaments or other political institutions, - the power to engage in legal proceedings where the national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive have been violated or to bring these violations to the attention of the judicial authorities. Decisions by the supervisory authority which give rise to complaints may be appealed against through the courts. 4. Each supervisory authority shall hear claims lodged by any person, or by an association representing that person, concerning the protection of his rights and freedoms in regard to the processing of personal data. The person concerned shall be informed of the outcome of the claim. Each supervisory authority shall, in particular, hear claims for checks on the lawfulness of data processing lodged by any person when the national provisions adopted pursuant to Article 13 of this Directive apply. The person shall at any rate be informed that a check has taken place. 5. Each supervisory authority shall draw up a report on its activities at regular intervals. The report shall be made public. 6. Each supervisory authority is competent, whatever the national law applicable to the processing in question, to exercise, on the territory of its own Member State, the powers conferred on it in accordance with paragraph 3. Each authority may be requested to exercise its powers by an authority of another Member State. The supervisory authorities shall cooperate with one another to the extent necessary for the performance of their duties, in particular by exchanging all useful information. 7. Member States shall provide that the members and staff of the supervisory authority, even after their employment has ended, are to be subject to a duty of professional secrecy with regard to confidential information to which they have access. |
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Denmark
55. - (1) The Data Protection Agency, which consists of a Council and a Secretariat, is responsible for the supervision of all processing operations covered by this Act, cf., however chapter 17. (2) The day-to-day business is attended to by the Secretariat, headed by a Director. (3) The Council, which shall be set up by the Minister of Justice, is composed of a chairman, who shall be a legally qualified judge, and of six other members. Substitutes may be appointed for the members of the Council. The members and their substitutes shall be appointed for a term of 4 years. (4) The Council shall lay down its own rules of procedure and detailed rules on the division of work between the Council and the Secretariat. 56. The Data Protection Agency shall act with complete independence in executing the functions entrusted to it. 57. The opinion of the Data Protection Agency shall be obtained when Orders, Circulars or similar general regulations of importance for the protection of privacy in connection with the processing of data are to be drawn up. 58. – (1) The Data Protection Agency shall supervise, on its own initiative or acting on a complaint from a data subject, that the processing is carried out in compliance with the provisions of this Act and any rules issued by virtue of this Act. (2) The Data Protection Agency may at any time revoke a decision made in accordance with section 27 (4) or section 50 (2), cf. section 27 (1) or (3) 2 to 4, if the European Commission decides that transfer of data to specific third countries may not take place or whether such transfers may lawfully take place. This, however, shall only apply where the revocation is necessary in order to comply with the decision of the Commission. (3) In special cases, the Data Protection Agency may prohibit or suspend the transfer of personal data within the scope of Section 27 (5). 59. – (1) The Data Protection Agency may order a private data controller to discontinue a processing operation which may not take place under this Act and to rectify, erase or block specific data undergoing such processing. (2) The Data Protection Agency may prohibit a private data controller from using a specified procedure in connection with the processing of data if the Data Protection Agency finds that the procedure in question involves a considerable risk that data are processed in violation of this Act. (3) The Data Protection Agency may order a private data controller to implement specific technical and organizational security measures to protect data which may not be processed against processing, and to protect data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, and disclosure to any unauthorized person, abuse or any other unlawful forms of processing. (4) The Data Protection Agency may in special cases issue a prohibitory or mandatory injunction against data processors, cf. subsections (1) to (3). 60. – (1) The Data Protection Agency shall make decisions in relation to the relevant authority in cases concerning section 7 (7), section 9 (3), section 10 (3), section 13 (1), section 27 (4), sections 28 to 31, section 32 (1), (2) and (4), sections 33 to 37, section 39 and section 58 (2). (2) In other cases, the Data Protection Agency shall give opinions to the authority acting as controller. 61. No appeals may be brought before any other administrative authority against the decisions made by the Data Protection Agency under the provisions of this Act. 62. – (1) The Data Protection Agency may require to be furnished with any information of importance to its activities, including for the decision as to whether or not a particular matter falls under the provisions of this Act. (2) The members and the staff of the Data Protection Agency shall at any time, against appropriate proof of identity and without any court order, have access to all premises from which processing operations carried out on behalf of the public administration are administered, or from which there is access to the data subject to processing, and to all premises where data or technical equipment are stored or used. (3) Subsection (2) shall apply correspondingly as regards processing operations carried out on behalf of private data controllers to the extent that such processing is covered by section 50 or is carried out in connection with video surveillance. (4) Subsection (2) shall also apply to processing operations carried out by processors as referred to in section 53. 63. – (1) The Data Protection Agency may decide that notifications and applications for authorizations under the provisions of this Act and any changes therein may or shall be submitted in a specified manner. (2) An amount of DKK 2,000 shall be payable in connection with the submission of the following notifications and applications for authorizations under this Act:
(3) Notifications as referred to in subsection (2) 1 and 3 shall be deemed to have been submitted only when payment has been effected. The Data Protection Agency may decide that authorizations as referred to in subsection (2) 2 shall not be granted until payment has been effected. (4) The provisions of subsection (2) 1 and 2 do not apply to processing of data which takes place exclusively for scientific or statistical purposes. (5) Where a processing operation shall both be notified under section 48 and authorized under section 50, only a single fee shall be payable. 64. – (1) The Data Protection Agency may, on its own initiative or at the request of another Member State, check that a processing operation of data taking place in Denmark is lawful, irrespective of whether or not the processing operation is governed by the legislation of another Member State. The provisions laid down in sections 59 and 62 shall be correspondingly applicable. (2) The Data Protection Agency may further disclose data to supervisory authorities in other Member States to the extent that this is required in order to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Act or those of the data protection legislation of the Member State concerned. 65. The Data Protection Agency shall submit an annual report on its activities to Folketinget (the Danish Parliament). The report shall be made public. The Data Protection Agency may also make its opinions accessible to the general public. Section 30 shall be correspondingly applicable. 66. The Data Protection Agency and the Danish Court Administration shall co-operate to the extent required to fulfil their obligations, particularly through the exchange of all relevant data.
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