1. Each supervisory authority shall ensure that the imposition of administrative fines pursuant to this Article in respect of infringements of this Regulation referred to in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 shall in each individual case be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
2. Administrative fines shall, depending on the circumstances of each individual case, be imposed in addition to, or instead of, measures referred to in points (a) to (h) and (j) of Article 58(2). When deciding whether to impose an administrative fine and deciding on the amount of the administrative fine in each individual case due regard shall be given to the following:
(a) the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement taking into account the nature scope or purpose of the processing concerned as well as the number of data subjects affected and the level of damage suffered by them;
(b) the intentional or negligent character of the infringement;
(c) any action taken by the controller or processor to mitigate the damage suffered by data subjects;
(d) the degree of responsibility of the controller or processor taking into account technical and organisational measures implemented by them pursuant to Articles 25 and 32;
(e) any relevant previous infringements by the controller or processor;
(f) the degree of cooperation with the supervisory authority, in order to remedy the infringement and mitigate the possible adverse effects of the infringement;
(g) the categories of personal data affected by the infringement;
(h) the manner in which the infringement became known to the supervisory authority, in particular whether, and if so to what extent, the controller or processor notified the infringement;
(i) where measures referred to in Article 58(2) have previously been ordered against the controller or processor concerned with regard to the same subject-matter, compliance with those measures;
(j) adherence to approved codes of conduct pursuant to Article 40 or approved certification mechanisms pursuant to Article 42; and
(k) any other aggravating or mitigating factor applicable to the circumstances of the case, such as financial benefits gained, or losses avoided, directly or indirectly, from the infringement.
3. If a controller or processor intentionally or negligently, for the same or linked processing operations, infringes several provisions of this Regulation, the total amount of the administrative fine shall not exceed the amount specified for the gravest infringement.
4. Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 10 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 2 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher:
(a) the obligations of the controller and the processor pursuant to Articles 8, 11, 25 to 39 and 42 and 43;
(b) the obligations of the certification body pursuant to Articles 42 and 43;
(c) the obligations of the monitoring body pursuant to Article 41(4).
5. Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher:
(a) the basic principles for processing, including conditions for consent, pursuant to Articles 5, 6, 7 and 9;
(b) the data subjects' rights pursuant to Articles 12 to 22;
(c) the transfers of personal data to a recipient in a third country or an international organisation pursuant to Articles 44 to 49;
(d) any obligations pursuant to Member State law adopted under Chapter IX;
(e) non-compliance with an order or a temporary or definitive limitation on processing or the suspension of data flows by the supervisory authority pursuant to Article 58(2) or failure to provide access in violation of Article 58(1).
6. Non-compliance with an order by the supervisory authority as referred to in Article 58(2) shall, in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher.
7. Without prejudice to the corrective powers of supervisory authorities pursuant to Article 58(2), each Member State may lay down the rules on whether and to what extent administrative fines may be imposed on public authorities and bodies established in that Member State.
8. The exercise by the supervisory authority of its powers under this Article shall be subject to appropriate procedural safeguards in accordance with Union and Member State law, including effective judicial remedy and due process.
9. Where the legal system of the Member State does not provide for administrative fines, this Article may be applied in such a manner that the fine is initiated by the competent supervisory authority and imposed by competent national courts, while ensuring that those legal remedies are effective and have an equivalent effect to the administrative fines imposed by supervisory authorities. In any event, the fines imposed shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Those Member States shall notify to the Commission the provisions of their laws which they adopt pursuant to this paragraph by 25 May 2018 and, without delay, any subsequent amendment law or amendment affecting them.
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Art. 79
1. Each supervisory authority shall be empowered to impose administrative sanctions in accordance with this Article.
2. The administrative sanction shall be in each individual case effective, proportionate and dissuasive. The amount of the administrative fine shall be fixed with due regard to the nature, gravity and duration of the breach, the intentional or negligent character of the infringement, the degree of responsibility of the natural or legal person and of previous breaches by this person, the technical and organisational measures and procedures implemented pursuant to Article 23 and the degree of co-operation with the supervisory authority in order to remedy the breach.
3. In case of a first and non-intentional non-compliance with this Regulation, a warning in writing may be given and no sanction imposed, where:
(a) a natural person is processing personal data without a commercial interest; or
(b) an enterprise or an organisation employing fewer than 250 persons is processing personal data only as an activity ancillary to its main activities.
4. The supervisory authority shall impose a fine up to 250 000 EUR, or in case of an enterprise up to 0,5 % of its annual worldwide turnover, to anyone who, intentionally or negligently:
(a) does not provide the mechanisms for requests by data subjects or does not respond promptly or not in the required format to data subjects pursuant to Articles 12(1) and (2);
(b) charges a fee for the information or for responses to the requests of data subjects in violation of Article 12(4).
5. The supervisory authority shall impose a fine up to 500 000 EUR, or in case of an enterprise up to 1 % of its annual worldwide turnover, to anyone who, intentionally or negligently:
(a) does not provide the information, or does provide incomplete information, or does not provide the information in a sufficiently transparent manner, to the data subject pursuant to Article 11, Article 12(3) and Article 14;
(b) does not provide access for the data subject or does not rectify personal data pursuant to Articles 15 and 16 or does not communicate the relevant information to a recipient pursuant to Article 13;
(c) does not comply with the right to be forgotten or to erasure, or fails to put mechanisms in place to ensure that the time limits are observed or does not take all necessary steps to inform third parties that a data subjects requests to erase any links to, or copy or replication of the personal data pursuant Article 17;
(d) does not provide a copy of the personal data in electronic format or hinders the data subject to transmit the personal data to another application in violation of Article 18;
(e) does not or not sufficiently determine the respective responsibilities with co-controllers pursuant to Article 24;
(f) does not or not sufficiently maintain the documentation pursuant to Article 28, Article 31(4), and Article 44(3);
(g) does not comply, in cases where special categories of data are not involved, pursuant to Articles 80, 82 and 83 with rules in relation to freedom of expression or with rules on the processing in the employment context or with the conditions for processing for historical, statistical and scientific research purposes.
6. The supervisory authority shall impose a fine up to 1 000 000 EUR or, in case of an enterprise up to 2 % of its annual worldwide turnover, to anyone who, intentionally or negligently:
(a) processes personal data without any or sufficient legal basis for the processing or does not comply with the conditions for consent pursuant to Articles 6, 7 and 8;
(b) processes special categories of data in violation of Articles 9 and 81;
(c) does not comply with an objection or the requirement pursuant to Article 19;
(d) does not comply with the conditions in relation to measures based on profiling pursuant to Article 20;
(e) does not adopt internal policies or does not implement appropriate measures for ensuring and demonstrating compliance pursuant to Articles 22, 23 and 30;
(f) does not designate a representative pursuant to Article 25;
(g) processes or instructs the processing of personal data in violation of the obligations in relation to processing on behalf of a controller pursuant to Articles 26 and 27;
(h) does not alert on or notify a personal data breach or does not timely or completely notify the data breach to the supervisory authority or to the data subject pursuant to Articles 31 and 32;
(i) does not carry out a data protection impact assessment pursuant or processes personal data without prior authorisation or prior consultation of the supervisory authority pursuant to Articles 33 and 34;
(j) does not designate a data protection officer or does not ensure the conditions for fulfilling the tasks pursuant to Articles 35, 36 and 37;
(k) misuses a data protection seal or mark in the meaning of Article 39;
(l) carries out or instructs a data transfer to a third country or an international organisation that is not allowed by an adequacy decision or by appropriate safeguards or by a derogation pursuant to Articles 40 to 44;
(m) does not comply with an order or a temporary or definite ban on processing or the suspension of data flows by the supervisory authority pursuant to Article 53(1);
(n) does not comply with the obligations to assist or respond or provide relevant information to, or access to premises by, the supervisory authority pursuant to Article 28(3), Article 29, Article 34(6) and Article 53(2);
(o) does not comply with the rules for safeguarding professional secrecy pursuant to Article 84.
7. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 86 for the purpose of updating the amounts of the administrative fines referred to in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6, taking into account the criteria referred to in paragraph 2.
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Art. 79a
1. The supervisory authority (…) may impose a fine that shall not exceed 250 000 EUR, or in case of an undertaking 0,5 % of its total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, on a controller who, intentionally or negligently: (a) does not respond within the period referred to in Article 12(2) to requests of the data subject; (b) charges a fee in violation of the first sentence of paragraph 4 of Article 12.
2. The supervisory authority (…) may impose a fine that shall not exceed 500 000 EUR, or in case of an undertaking 1% of its total worldwide annual (…) turnover of the preceding financial year, on a controller or processor who, intentionally or negligently:
(a) does not provide the information, or (…) provides incomplete information, or does not provide the information [timely or] in a [sufficiently] transparent manner, to the data subject pursuant to Articles 12(3),14 and 14a;
(b) does not provide access for the data subject or does not rectify personal data pursuant to Articles 15 and 16 (…);
(c) does not erase personal data in violation of the right to erasure and 'to be forgotten' pursuant to Article 17(1)(a), 17(1)(b), 17(1)(d) or 17(1)(e);
(d) (…)
(da) processes personal data in violation of the right to restriction of processing pursuant to Article 17a or does not inform the data subject before the restriction of processing is lifted pursuant to Article 17a(4);
(db) does not communicate any rectification, erasure or restriction of processing to each recipient to whom the controller has disclosed personal data, in violation of Article 17b;
(dc) does not provide the data subject’s personal data concerning him or her (…) in violation of Article 18;
(dd) processes personal data after the objection of the data subject pursuant to Article 19(1) and does not demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
(de) does not provide the data subject with information concerning the right to object processing for direct marketing purposes pursuant to Article 19(2) or continues to process data for direct marketing purposes after the objection of the data subject in violation of Article 19(2a);
(e) does not or not sufficiently determine the respective responsibilities with joint controllers pursuant to Article 24;
(f) does not or not sufficiently maintain the documentation pursuant to Article 28 and Article 31(4).
(g) (…)
3. The supervisory authority (…) may impose a fine that shall not exceed 1 000 000 EUR or, in case of an undertaking, 2 % of its total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, on a controller or processor who, intentionally or negligently:
(a) processes personal data without a (…) legal basis for the processing or does not comply with the conditions for consent pursuant to Articles 6, 7, 8 and 9;
(b) (…);
(c) (…); (d) does not comply with the conditions in relation to (…)automated individual decision making, including profiling pursuant to Article 20;
(da) does not (…) implement appropriate measures or is not able to demonstrate compliance pursuant to Articles 22 (…) and 30;
(db) does not designate a representative in violation of Article 25;
(dc) processes or instructs the processing of personal data in violation of (…) Articles 26;
(dd) does not alert on or notify a personal data breach or does not [timely or] completely notify the data breach to the supervisory authority or to the data subject in violation of Articles 31 and 32;
(de) does not carry out a data protection impact assessment in violation of Article 33 or processes personal data without prior consultation of the supervisory authority in violation of Article 34(2);
(e) (…);
(f) misuses a data protection seal or mark in the meaning of Article 39 or does not comply with the conditions and procedures laid down in Articles 38a and 39a;
(g) carries out or instructs a data transfer to a recipient in a third country or an international organisation in violation of Articles 41 to 44;
(h) does not comply with an order or a temporary or definite limitation on processing or the suspension of data flows by the supervisory authority pursuant to Article 53 (1b) or does not provide access in violation of Article 53(1).
(i) (…)
(j) (…).
3a. If a controller or processor intentionally or negligently violates several provisions of this Regulation listed in paragraphs 1, 2 or 3, the total amount of the fine may not exceed the amount specified for the gravest violation.
4. (…)
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Art. 24
The Member States shall adopt suitable measures to ensure the full implementation of the provisions of this Directive and shall in particular lay down the sanctions to be imposed in case of infringement of the provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive.
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General conditions for imposing administrative fines
§ 30 DSG
(1) The Data Protection Authority can impose administrative fines on a legal person if infringements of provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation and of § 1 or Chapter 1 Article 2 were committed by persons who acted either individually or as part of an executive body of the legal person and have a leading position within the legal person on the basis of:
- a power of representation of the legal person,
- the authority to take decisions on behalf of the legal person, or
- the authority to exercise control within the legal person.
(2) Legal persons may also be held responsible for infringements of provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation and of § 1 or Chapter 1 Article 2 if such infringements by a person acting for the legal person were made possible by a lack of supervision or control by one of the persons referred to in para. 1 unless the act constitutes a criminal offence within the jurisdiction of the courts.
(3) The Data Protection Authority shall refrain from imposing a fine on a responsible party pursuant to § 9 of the Administrative Penal Act 1991, Federal Law Gazette 52/1991, if an administrative penalty has already been imposed on the legal person for the same infringement.
(4) Administrative fines imposed pursuant to § 22 para. 5 shall be received by the Federal Government and shall be collected pursuant to the provisions on the collection of judicial fines. Final administrative decisions by the Data Protection Authority are writs of enforcement. Approval and implementation of enforcement is to be requested on the basis of the writ of enforcement by the Data Protection Authority from the district court in whose judicial district the obligated party has his or her general place of jurisdiction (§ 66 and § 75 of the Court Jurisdiction Act, Imperial Law Gazette No 111/1895) or from the enforcing court referred to in § 18 and § 19 of the Enforcement Code.
(5) On public authorities and public bodies, in particular bodies instituted in legal form under public or privat law, acting on an official legal mandate, and against corporations under public law, monetary fines can not be imposed.
Reprimand by the data protection authority
§ 11 DSG
In application of the catalogue in Art. 83, para. 2 to 6 GDPR, the data protection authority will safeguard the principle of proportionality. In particular in cases of first-time infringements, the data protection authority will in accordance with Art. 58 GDPR exercise its powers particulary by issuing reprimands.
Special penal provisions
Administrative penalties
§ 62 DSG
(1) Unless the offence meets the elements of Article 83 of the General Data Protection Regulation or is subject to a more severe punishment according to other administrative penal provisions, an administrative offence punishable by a fine of up to €50,000 is committed by anyone who
- intentionally and illegally gains access to data processing or maintains an obviously illegal means of access,
- transmits data intentionally in violation of the rules on confidentiality (§ 6), in particular intentionally uses data entrusted to him or her according to § 7 or § 8 for other prohibited purposes,
- by giving incorrect information intentionally obtains personal data according to § 10,
- processes images contrary to the provisions of Chapter 1, Part 3, or
- refuses inspection pursuant to § 22 para. 2.
(2) Attempts shall be punishable.
(3) In the case of an administrative offence pursuant to paras. 1 and 2, administrative fines can be imposed on legal persons in accordance with § 30.
(4) Data media and programs as well as apparatus for the transmission and recording of images can be forfeited (§ 10, § 17 and § 18 of the Administrative Penal Act) if they are linked to an administrative offence according to para. 1.
(5) The Data Protection Authority shall be the competent authority for decisions pursuant to paras. 1 to 4.
Processing with the intention to make a profit or to cause harm
§ 63 DSG
Whoever, with the intention to enrich himself or a third person unlawfully or to harm someone regarding that person’s entitlement guaranteed according to § 1 para. 1, deliberately uses personal data that have been entrusted to or have become accessible to him solely because of his professional occupation, or that he has acquired illegally, for himself or makes such data available to another person or publishes such data despite the data subject’s interest in confidentiality which deserves protection, shall be punished by a court with imprisonment of up to one year or with a fine of up to €720, unless the offence is subject to a more severe punishment pursuant to another provision.
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All of the following inforce until May 25, 2018:
Penal Provisions
Use of Data with the Intention to make a Profit or to Cause Harm
§ 51 DSG 2000
(1) Whoever with the intention to enrich himself or a third person unlawfully or to harm someone in his entitlement guaranteed according to § 1 para 1 deliberately uses personal data that have been entrusted to or made accessible to him solely because of professional reasons, or that he has acquired illegally, for himself or makes such data available to others or publishes such data with the intention to make a profit or to harm others, despite the data subject’s interest in secrecy deserving protection, shall be punished by a court with imprisonment up to a year, unless the offence shall be subject to a more severe punishment pursuant to another provision.
Administrative Penalties
§ 52 DSG 2000
(1) Insofar as the act does not realize the legal elements of a criminal offence subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of law and is not subject to more severe penalties according to another administrative provision, an administrative offence punishable by a fine of up to 25 000 Euro is committed by anyone who
1. intentionally and illegally gains access to a data application or maintains an obviously illegal means of access or
2. transmits data intentionally in violation of the rules on confidentiality (§ 15), and in particular anybody who uses data entrusted to him according to § 46 and 47 for other purposes or
3. uses or fails to grant information, to rectify or erase data in violation of a final judicial decision or ruling,
4. intentional erases data in violation of § 26 para. 7;
5. by pretending incorrect facts intentionally obtains data according to § 48a.
(2) Insofar as the act does not realize the legal elements of a criminal offence subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of law, an administrative offence punishable by a fine of up to 10 000 Euro is committed by anyone who
1. collects, processes and transmits data without having fulfilled his obligation to notification according to §§ 17 or 50c or operates a data application in a manner deviating from the notification.
2. engages in data transmissions or abandonments without the necessary permit of the Data Protection Authority according to § 13 para 1or
3. violates declarations given according to § 13 para 2 sub-para. 2, § 19 or 50c para 1 or conditions imposed by the Data Protection Authority according to § 13 para 1 or § 21 para 2 or
4. violates his obligations of disclosure and information according to §§ 23, 24, 25 and 50d or
5. grossly neglects the required data security measures according to § 14 or
6. disregards the safety measures required according to § 50a para 7 and § 50b para 1 or
7. does not delete data after expiring of the period provided for in § 50b para 2 for deletion.
(2a) To the extent the act does not constitute a criminal offence within the jurisdiction of the courts or is punishable under other administrative penal regulations, who, contrary to §§ 26, 27 or 28, does not in time give information on, corrects or deletes data, commits an administrative offence to be punished with a fine up to € 500.
(3) Attempts shall be punished.
(4) Data media or programs as well as picture transmitting or -recording devices can be confiscated (§§ 10, 17 and 18 of the Administrative Penal Act 1991 [VStG]), if they are linked to an administrative offence according to para. 1 and 2.
(5) The district administrative authority at the controller´s (processor´s) domicile or seat shall be the competent authority for decisions according to para. 1 to 4. If there is no domicile or seat in Austria, the district administrative authority at the seat of the Data Protection Authority shall be competent.
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