GDPR — Article 37

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Article 37
Designation of the data protection officer
1. The controller and the processor shall designate a data protection officer in any case where:
(a) 
the processing is carried out by a public authority or body, except for courts acting in their judicial capacity;
(b) 
the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing operations which, by virtue of their nature, their scope and/or their purposes, require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale; or
(c) 
the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing on a large scale of special categories of data pursuant to Article 9 or personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10.
of data pursuant to Article 9 or personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10.
2. A group of undertakings may appoint a single data protection officer provided that a data protection officer is easily accessible from each establishment.
3. Where the controller or the processor is a public authority or body, a single data protection officer may be designated for several such authorities or bodies, takingfull text account of their organisational structure and size.
4. In cases other than those referred to in paragraph 1, the controller or processor or associations and other bodies representing categories of controllers or processors may or, where required by Union or Member State law shall, designate a data protection officer. The data protection officer may act for such associations and other bodies representing controllers or processors.
The data protection officer may act for such associations and other bodies representing controllers or processors.
5. The data protection officer shall be designated on the basis of professional qualities and, in particular, expert knowledge of data protection law and practices and the ability to fulfil the tasks referred to in Article 39.
6. The data protection officer may be a staff member of the controller or processor, or fulfil the tasks on the basis of a service contract.
7. The controller or the processor shall publish the contact details of the data protection officer and communicate them to the supervisory authority.

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Who	Country	What they wrote
Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (GDD) e.V.	DE	– wie in Art. 28. Abs. 9 DS-GVO – innerhalb der Begriffsbestimmun- gen in Art. 4 DS-GVO gelingen. 3. Datenschutzbeauftragte Nach Art. 37 Abs. 1 lit. a) DS-GVO muss jede öffentliche Stelle unabhängig von der personel- len Größe der Einrichtung und dem Risiko d ↗
BSA \| The Software Alliance	BE	n Portugal whereas in Germany they need to be 16). This poses various compliance challenges for organizations, especially SMEs. • Article 37(4) of the GDPR has empowered Member States’ data protections laws to further extend the scenarios where a data protecti ↗
Avvocato	IT	i ordine teorico e pratico), la valutazione di impatto sulla protezione dei dati (art. 35) e soprattutto la designazione del DPO (art. 37); 2) la razionalizzazione delle basi giuridiche, constatata la non sempre agevole interazione tra quelle previste per tutt ↗
Xamit Bewertungsgesellschaft mbH	DE	rieblichen Abläufe bedarf es insbesondere bei Datenschutzbeauftragten und -beratern ein vielschichtiges Knowhow. Da die DS-GVO in Art. 37 Abs. 5 zwar eine berufliche Qualifikation und Fachwissen von einem Datenschutzbeauftragten verlangt, beides aber nicht fes ↗
—	FR	serve une tendance qui se développe pour affirmer que la fonction de DPO est réservée à des juristes. Cela n'est pas conforme à l'article 37.5, même si seules les connaissances en droit sont explicitement citées. On y parle aussi des « pratiques en matière de ↗
CEDPO - European Confederation of Data Protection Organisations.	BE	GDPR is assessed. Supervisory authorities must reach out to the designated DPO at the published or communicated contact details (Art 37.7 of the GDPR). In order to make the GDPR enforcement more optimal in this regard, CEDPO is of the view that enforcement pr ↗
Access Now Europe	FR	ublic Administration Act (1967) Article 16 - Individual decisions Opportunity to express opinion for parties within a time limit. Article 37 - Regulations Opportunity to express their opinions for: - public and private institutions, - organisations for enterpr ↗
Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz e.V.	DE	Datenschutzbeauftragten bei externen Personen einfacher zu ge- währleisten. Die Regelungen des Art. 37 Abs. 1 Buchst. b) und c) DSGVO für andere Verantwortliche als Behörden und öffentliche Stellen sind allerdings so weit gefasst, dass auf dieser Grundlage vie ↗
Bundesarchitektenkammer e.V.	DE	labteilung und bei dem diese Datenverarbeitung die Tätigkeit prägt. Europarechtlich könnte in diesem Zusammenhang erwogen werden, Art. 37 DSGVO zu konkretisieren. Absatz 1 lit. b) der Norm stellt zur Frage, wer einen betrieblichen Datenschutzbeauftragten benen ↗

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 9 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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