EU regulatory register · GDPR
Article 35Data protection impact assessment
CELEX 32016R0679 · Read on 2026-08-18 · Chapter IV
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1. Where a type of processing in particular using new technologies, and taking into account the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controller shall, prior to the processing, carry out an assessment of the impact of the envisaged processing operations …
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1. Where a type of processing in particular using new technologies, and taking into account the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controller shall, prior to the processing, carry out an assessment of the impact of the envisaged processing operations on the protection of personal data. A single assessment may address a set of similar processing operations that present similar high risks.
2. The controller shall seek the advice of the data protection officer, where designated, when carrying out a data protection impact assessment.
3. A data protection impact assessment referred to in paragraph 1 shall in particular be required in the case of:
(a)
a systematic and extensive evaluation of personal aspects relating to natural persons which is based on automated processing, including profiling, and on which decisions are based that produce legal effects concerning the natural person or similarly significantly affect the natural person;
(b)
processing on a large scale of special categories of data referred to in Article 9(1), or of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10; or
(c)
a systematic monitoring of a publicly accessible area on a large scale.
4. The supervisory authority shall establish and make public a list of the kind of processing operations which are subject to the requirement for a data protection impact assessment pursuant to paragraph 1. The supervisory authority shall communicate those lists to the Board referred to in Article 68.
5. The supervisory authority may also establish and make public a list of the kind of processing operations for which no data protection impact assessment is required. The supervisory authority shall communicate those lists to the Board.
6. Prior to the adoption of the lists referred to in paragraphs 4 and 5, the competent supervisory authority shall apply the consistency mechanism referred to in Article 63 where such lists involve processing activities which are related to the offering of goods or services to data subjects or to the monitoring of their behaviour in several Member States, or may substantially affect the free movement of personal data within the Union.
7. The assessment shall contain at least:
(a)
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Knowledge card
- Applies
- controller: Carry out a data protection impact assessment for high-risk processing.
- Risk if ignored
- high
- What to do
- Carry out a data protection impact assessment for high-risk processing.
- Deadline
- No fixed deadline in the register
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Risk, sanction and outcome
Art. 35 · controller
Risk: high · Sanction: administrative_fine, högst EUR 10 000 000 · Authority: Competent supervisory authority
Decisions applying the provision: 1, latest eu:ewca-2020-1058
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5 judgments in the register cite the article in their text. EU 1 · DE 4
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Skäl 90 · Article 35
When an impact assessment is required: systematic monitoring, sensitive data at scale and new technology.
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