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  "id": "32016R0679:en",
  "celex": "32016R0679",
  "jurisdiction": "EU",
  "language": "en",
  "kind": "legislation",
  "title": "Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "documentType": "Regulation",
  "author": "Council of the European Union, European Parliament",
  "dateOfDocument": "2016-04-27",
  "dateOfEffect": "2016-05-24",
  "dateOfPublication": null,
  "ecli": null,
  "eli": "http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj",
  "subjects": [
    "Area of freedom, security and justice",
    "Consumer protection",
    "Information and verification"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "access to information",
    "area of freedom, security and justice",
    "cross-frontier data flow",
    "data protection",
    "data-processing law",
    "disclosure of information",
    "natural person",
    "personal data",
    "protection of privacy"
  ],
  "version": 14,
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  "recitals": [
    "The protection of natural persons in relation to the processing of personal data is a fundamental right. Article 8(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’) and Article 16(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) provide that everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.",
    "The principles of, and rules on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of their personal data should, whatever their nationality or residence, respect their fundamental rights and freedoms, in particular their right to the protection of personal data. This Regulation is intended to contribute to the accomplishment of an area of freedom, security and justice and of an economic union, to economic and social progress, to the strengthening and the convergence of the economies within the internal market, and to the well-being of natural persons."
  ],
  "articles": [
    {
      "id": "art_1",
      "number": "Article 1",
      "title": "Subject-matter and objectives",
      "text": "1. This Regulation lays down rules relating to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and rules relating to the free movement of personal data. 2. This Regulation protects fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons and in particular their right to the protection of personal data. 3. The free movement of personal data within the Union shall be neither restricted nor prohibited for reasons connected with the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data.",
      "repealed": false
    },
    {
      "id": "art_2",
      "number": "Article 2",
      "title": "Material scope",
      "text": "1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system. 2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: (a) in the course of an activity which falls outside the scope of Union law; (b) by the Member States when carrying out activities which fall within the scope of Chapter 2 of Title V of the TEU; (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity; (d […]",
      "repealed": false
    },
    {
      "id": "art_3",
      "number": "Article 3",
      "title": "Territorial scope",
      "text": "1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not. 2. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to: (a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or (b) the monitoring […]",
      "repealed": false
    },
    {
      "id": "art_4",
      "number": "Article 4",
      "title": "Definitions",
      "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation: (1) ‘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, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person; (2) ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data […]",
      "repealed": false
    },
    {
      "id": "art_5",
      "number": "Article 5",
      "title": "Principles relating to processing of personal data",
      "text": "1. Personal data shall be: (a) processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject (‘lawfulness, fairness and transparency’); (b) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall, in accordance with Article 89(1), not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes (‘purpose limitation’); (c) adequate, relevant and limited t […]",
      "repealed": false
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "EUR-Lex / Cellar (Publications Office of the European Union): EU law and the Official Journal",
    "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679",
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    "attribution": "Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998–2026; reuse authorised under the EUR-Lex legal notice (Commission documents: Decision 2011/833/EU). Changes made by Arieta Labs: text extracted from the published documents, restructured into articles and metadata, citation edges derived. Only the Official Journal is authentic."
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