GDPR — Article 18

The article's text

Article 18
Right to restriction of processing
1. The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller restriction of processing where one of the following applies:
(a) 
the accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
(b) 
the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of their use instead;
(c) 
the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
(d) 
the data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
21(1) pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
2. Where processing has been restricted under paragraph 1, such personal data shall, with the exception of storage, only be processed with the data subject's consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims full textor for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.
3. A data subject who has obtained restriction of processing pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be informed by the controller before the restriction of processing is lifted.

Who wrote about this article in the consultations

Filers who named this exact article number in their own text. It is their sentence, not our reading — and not a causal claim.

business association

NGO

Who	Country	What they wrote
German Insurance Association	DE	the principle of technological neutrality. New EU legislation on the exchange of data requires the anonymization of data, such as Article 18(5) of the Data Act for the transfer of data to public bodies. ↗
ACCIS	BE	ficial Intelligence Act, and the proposal for a Financial Data Access (FIDA) framework. 1. Consumer Credit Directive II (CCD II). Article 18(6) in the revised CCD II introduces "complementary" consumer rights related to creditworthiness assessments (CWAs) that ↗
Anonos Inc.	US	satisfy the balancing of interest test, they have greater flexibility in complying with Right to be Forgotten requests. 2. Under Article 18(1)(d), a data controller has flexibility in complying with requests to restrict the processing of personal data if they ↗
ITI - Information Technology Industry Council	US	shed by the Court of Justice of the EU on the SA’s obligations and discretion in how to treat complaints and what to investigate. Article 18 of the proposed Regulation sets out rules on the content of RROs, according to which they must a) be based exclusively ↗
noyb	AT	ex officio procedure, it may only be closed with the agreement of that concerned supervisory authority.66 Chapter V – Cooperation Article 18 - European coordination committee ↗
—		red to “has given explicit consent” in Art. 9 or “has explicitly consented” in Art. 49; - “reasons of important public interest” (Art. 18.2), “important objectives of general public interest” (Art. 23.1(e)), “important grounds of public interest” (Art. 28.3(a) ↗

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 6 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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