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GDPR — Article 55

The article's text

Article 55 Competence 1. Each supervisory authority shall be competent for the performance of the tasks assigned to and the exercise of the powers conferred on it in accordance with this Regulation on the territory of its own Member State. 2. Where processing is carried out by public authorities or private bodies acting on the basis of point (c) or (e) of Article 6(1), the supervisory authority of the Member State concerned shall be competent. In such cases Article 56 does not apply. 3. Supervisory authorities shall not be competent to supervise processing operations of courts acting in their judicial capacity.

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

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IoT LabCHcountries. Article 43 GDPR provides that certification bodies must be accredited by either a supervisory authority (according to Art. 55 or 56 GDPR) or an accreditation body established in the EU (since they have to abide by EU Regulation 765/2008). This requ ↗
European Centre for Certification and Privacy (ECCP)LUting the certificate shall need to be accredited in accordance with Art. 42, either by a GDPR supervisory authority (according to Art. 55 or 56 GDPR) or an accreditation body established in the EU (since they have to abide by EU Regulation 765/2008). ↗
Hessischer LandtagDE, in der DSGVO gerade nicht in den Blick genommen wurde, während für die dritte Gewalt, also die Gerichte (Art. 23 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 55 Abs. 3 DSGVO), und andere Bereiche wie z.B. journalistische Tätigkeiten (Art. 85 DSGVO) oder die Datenverarbeitung durch K ↗
Délégué à la Protection des Données (ancien et formateur)FRdélégué à la protection des données, le responsable du traitement la notifie à l’autorité de contrôle compétente conformément à l’article 55, dans les meilleurs délais et, si possible, dans la limite de 7 jours calendaires au plus tard après en avoir pris conn ↗
EuroCommerceBEon- contentious way); o Clarification on the investigatory powers of the supervisory authorities regarding competence pursuant to Article 55 and 56. The Commission could also introduce a mechanism, where the investigated company or maybe even a group of intere ↗
European Publishers CouncilGBPR establishes an one-stop-shop mechanism when cross-border processing takes place, according to 12 GDPR, Article 51(1). 13 GDPR, Article 55(1). 14 GDPR, Article 51(2). ↗
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and NumbersUSside of the EU, all national supervisory authorities whose competence is triggered pursuant to the principle of territoriality in Art. 55 GDPR would be competent in parallel. 4. Need for coordination and consistency in matters of general application Bearing in ↗
Coalition for Online AccountabilityUSrm of the breach and any follow-up actions to remedy this. Thus, in terms of the registrar, it provided the legal basis, which is Article 55 of GDPR. For reference, this is laying down the investigative powers of the DPAs and also establishes the legitimate in ↗

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 8 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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