- Art. 5Principles relating to processing of personal data
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processing
- Art. 7Conditions for consent
- Art. 8Conditions applicable to child's consent in relation to information society services
- Art. 9Processing of special categories of personal data
- Art. 10Processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences
- Art. 11Processing which does not require identification
- Art. 12Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject
- Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject
- Art. 14Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject
- Art. 15Right of access by the data subject
- Art. 16Right to rectification
- Art. 17Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten")
- Art. 18Right to restriction of processing
- Art. 19Notification obligation regarding rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing
- Art. 20Right to data portability
- Art. 21Right to object
- Art. 22Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
- Art. 23Restrictions
- Art. 24Responsibility of the controller
- Art. 25Data protection by design and by default
- Art. 26Joint controllers
- Art. 27Representatives of controllers or processors not established in the Union
- Art. 28Processor
- Art. 29Processing under the authority of the controller or processor
- Art. 30Records of processing activities
- Art. 31Cooperation with the supervisory authority
- Art. 32Security of processing
- Art. 33Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority
- Art. 34Communication of a personal data breach to the data subject
- Art. 35Data protection impact assessment
- Art. 36Prior consultation
- Art. 37Designation of the data protection officer
- Art. 38Position of the data protection officer
- Art. 39Tasks of the data protection officer
- Art. 40Codes of conduct
- Art. 41Monitoring of approved codes of conduct
- Art. 42Certification
- Art. 43Certification bodies
- Art. 44General principle for transfers
- Art. 45Transfers on the basis of an adequacy decision
- Art. 46Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards
- Art. 47Binding corporate rules
- Art. 48Transfers or disclosures not authorised by Union law
- Art. 49Derogations for specific situations
- Art. 50International cooperation for the protection of personal data
- Art. 51Supervisory authority
- Art. 52Independence
- Art. 53General conditions for the members of the supervisory authority
- Art. 54Rules on the establishment of the supervisory authority
- Art. 55Competence
- Art. 56Competence of the lead supervisory authority
- Art. 57Tasks
- Art. 58Powers
- Art. 59Activity reports
- Art. 60Cooperation between the lead supervisory authority and the other supervisory authorities concerned
- Art. 61Mutual assistance
- Art. 62Joint operations of supervisory authorities
- Art. 63Consistency mechanism
- Art. 64Opinion of the Board
- Art. 65Dispute resolution by the Board
- Art. 66Urgency procedure
- Art. 67Exchange of information
- Art. 68European Data Protection Board
- Art. 69Independence
- Art. 70Tasks of the Board
- Art. 71Reports
- Art. 72Procedure
- Art. 73Chair
- Art. 74Tasks of the Chair
- Art. 75Secretariat
- Art. 76Confidentiality
- Art. 77Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
- Art. 78Right to an effective judicial remedy against a supervisory authority
- Art. 79Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor
- Art. 80Representation of data subjects
- Art. 81Suspension of proceedings
- Art. 82Right to compensation and liability
- Art. 83General conditions for imposing administrative fines
- Art. 84Penalties
- Art. 85Processing and freedom of expression and information
- Art. 86Processing and public access to official documents
- Art. 87Processing of the national identification number
- Art. 88Processing in the context of employment
- Art. 89Safeguards and derogations relating to processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes
- Art. 90Obligations of secrecy
- Art. 91Existing data protection rules of churches and religious associations
GDPR Chapter 2 - Art. 6
Lawfulness of processing
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1Processing 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 purposes;
- processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;
- processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
- processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
- processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
- processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.
2Point (f) of the first subparagraph shall not apply to processing carried out by public authorities in the performance of their tasks.
- Member States may maintain or introduce more specific provisions to adapt the application of the rules of this Regulation with regard to processing for compliance with points (c) and (e) of paragraph 1 by determining more precisely specific requirements for the processing and other measures to ensure lawful and fair processing including for other specific processing situations as provided for in Chapter IX.
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1The basis for the processing referred to in point (c) and (e) of paragraph 1 shall be laid down by:
- Union law; or
- Member State law to which the controller is subject.
2The purpose of the processing shall be determined in that legal basis or, as regards the processing referred to in point (e) of paragraph 1, shall be necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller. 3That legal basis may contain specific provisions to adapt the application of rules of this Regulation, inter alia: the general conditions governing the lawfulness of processing by the controller; the types of data which are subject to the processing; the data subjects concerned; the entities to, and the purposes for which, the personal data may be disclosed; the purpose limitation; storage periods; and processing operations and processing procedures, including measures to ensure lawful and fair processing such as those for other specific processing situations as provided for in Chapter IX. 4The Union or the Member State law shall meet an objective of public interest and be proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued.
- Where the processing for a purpose other than that for which the personal data have been collected is not based on the data subject’s consent or on a Union or Member State law which constitutes a necessary and proportionate measure in a democratic society to safeguard the objectives referred to in Article 23 (1), the controller shall, in order to ascertain whether processing for another purpose is compatible with the purpose for which the personal data are initially collected, take into account, inter alia:
- any link between the purposes for which the personal data have been collected and the purposes of the intended further processing;
- the context in which the personal data have been collected, in particular regarding the relationship between data subjects and the controller;
- the nature of the personal data, in particular whether special categories of personal data are processed, pursuant to Article 9, or whether personal data related to criminal convictions and offences are processed, pursuant to Article 10;
- the possible consequences of the intended further processing for data subjects;
- the existence of appropriate safeguards, which may include encryption or pseudonymisation.
Related Recitals
(39) data protection principles, data processing(40) lawfulness, data processing, steps prior to entering into a contract
(41) legal basis, legislative measures, Court of Justice of the European Union, European Court of Human Rights
(42) proof of consent, Directive 93/13/EEC, content of the consent, voluntariness
(43) freely given consent, clear imbalance, examples of invalid consent
(44) legal basis, performance of a contract, contract formation
(45) processing operations based on a legal obligation, processing for the performance of public intrests or excercise of public authority, conditions governing the lawfulness of processing
(46) processing for vital interests of the data subject, rationale of public interest, existential interests of the data subject
(47) legitimate interest of the controller, the interests and fundamental rights of the data subject, reasonable expectations of the data subject, direct advertising
(48) enterprise group, legitimate interest, transfer
(49) legitimate interest, network and information security
(50) change of purpose, compatibility of the purposes, further processing
(171) repeal of Directive 95/46/EC, transitional provisions
