Institution or law · GDPR recital 10

National data protection acts

In plain English

Each Member State's own data protection law, such as Germany's Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). It applies alongside the GDPR and fills in the points the GDPR leaves to national law.

What the law says

Regarding the processing of personal data for compliance with a legal obligation, for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller, Member States should be allowed to maintain or introduce national provisions to further specify the application of the rules of this Regulation.

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), recital 10EUR-Lex

For private bodies, this Act shall apply 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 …

Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) of 30 June 2017, Section 1(1), official English translation by the Federal Ministry of the Interiorgesetze-im-internet.de ↗

Related

The official text is quoted word for word from the English version of the source named under it; only the version published in the Official Journal of the EU is legally binding. The plain-English line is Fino’s own summary, not legal advice.