Article 51
Supervisory authority
(62) Whereas the establishment in Member States of supervisory authorities, exercising their functions with complete independence, is an essential component of the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data;
Regulation
Art. 51 1. Each Member State shall provide for one or more independent public authorities to be responsible for monitoring the application of this Regulation, in order to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons in relation to processing and to facilitate the free flow of personal data within the Union (‘supervisory authority’). 2. Each supervisory authority shall contribute to the consistent application of this Regulation throughout the Union. For that purpose, the supervisory authorities shall cooperate with each other and the Commission in accordance with Chapter VII. 3. Where more than one supervisory authority is established in a Member State, that Member State shall designate the supervisory authority which is to represent those authorities in the Board and shall set out the mechanism to ensure compliance by the other authorities with the rules relating to the consistency mechanism referred to in Article 63. 4. Each Member State shall notify to the Commission the provisions of its law which it adopts pursuant to this Chapter, by 25 May 2018 and, without delay, any subsequent amendment affecting them. |
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. |
Switzerland
to Articles 51-54 5. Abschnitt: Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter DSG Art. 26 Wahl und Stellung 1 Der Beauftragte wird vom Bundesrat für eine Amtsdauer von vier Jahren gewählt. Die Wahl ist durch die Bundesversammlung zu genehmigen. 2 Das Arbeitsverhältnis des Beauftragten richtet sich, soweit dieses Gesetz nichts anderes vorsieht, nach dem Bundespersonalgesetz vom 24. März 200048. 3 Der Beauftragte übt seine Funktion unabhängig aus, ohne Weisungen einer Behörde zu erhalten. Er ist der Bundeskanzlei administrativ zugeordnet. 4 Er verfügt über ein ständiges Sekretariat und ein eigenes Budget. Er stellt sein Personal an. 5 Der Beauftragte untersteht nicht dem Beurteilungssystem nach Artikel 4 Absatz 3 des Bundespersonalgesetzes vom 24. März 2000.
DSG Art. 26a Wiederwahl und Beendigung der Amtsdauer 1 Verfügt der Bundesrat nicht spätestens sechs Monate vor Ablauf der Amtsdauer aus sachlich hinreichenden Gründen die Nichtwiederwahl, so ist der Beauftragte für eine neue Amtsdauer wiedergewählt. 2 Der Beauftragte kann den Bundesrat unter Einhaltung einer Frist von sechs Monaten um Entlassung auf ein Monatsende ersuchen. 3 Der Bundesrat kann den Beauftragten vor Ablauf der Amtsdauer des Amtes entheben, wenn dieser: a. vorsätzlich oder grobfahrlässig Amtspflichten schwer verletzt hat; oder b. die Fähigkeit, das Amt auszuüben, auf Dauer verloren hat. DSG Art. 26b Andere Beschäftigung Der Bundesrat kann dem Beauftragten gestatten, eine andere Beschäftigung auszuüben, wenn dadurch dessen Unabhängigkeit und dessen Ansehen nicht beeinträchtigt werden.
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