Frequently Asked Questions

Mit der DSGVO oder der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung wird ein harmonisiertes Regelwerk geschaffen, das für die Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten durch im Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum (EWR) ansässige Organisationen (öffentlich oder privat, unabhängig von ihrer Größe) oder für Einzelpersonen in der EU gilt. Das Hauptziel der DSGVO besteht darin, sicherzustellen, dass personenbezogene Daten überall im EWR denselben hohen Schutzstandard genießen, die Rechtssicherheit sowohl für Einzelpersonen als auch für Organisationen, die Daten verarbeiten, erhöhen und ein hohes Maß an Schutz für Einzelpersonen bieten.

Die Verordnung trat am 24. Mai 2016 in Kraft und gilt seit dem 25. Mai 2018.

Controllers should formally submit their EU-wide certification criteria to:

1. the competent data protection authority (DPA) in the EEA country where the scheme owners have their headquarters;
2. the competent data protection authority (DPA) in the EEA country where a certification body operating the certification mechanism have their headquarters, considering the member state in which the most certificates are likely to be issued.

Under the GDPR, certification is conducted by national certification bodies or by the competent national data protection authorities (Art. 42(5) GDPR).

For further information, we recommend contacting the relevant national DPA for your organisation. You can find a overview of all EEA DPAs here.

You can find further information regarding certification in the EDPB guidelines on the topic: Guidelines 1/2018 on certification and identifying certification criteria in accordance with Articles 42 and 43 of the Regulation - version adopted after public consultation

All individuals residing in the European Economic Area (EEA) have the right to the protection of their personal data.

More specifically, under the GDPR, you have several rights

• Right to be informed
• Right of access
• Right to rectification
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to data portability
• Right to object
• Right not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.

For more information on your rights, please consult our leaflet The GDPR and your rights or the EDPB Data Protection Guide for small business.

Certification bodies are accredited by the national data protection authorities (DPA) or by the national accreditation body (named in accordance with Regulation 17065/2012). For further information regarding certification bodies, we recommend contacting the national DPA in your country. You can find an overview of all EEA DPAs here.

You can find further information regarding accreditation of certification bodies here: Guidelines 4/2018 on the accreditation of certification bodies under Article 43 of the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679)

Der EDSA veröffentlicht regelmäßig Pressemitteilungen, Nachrichten, Blogs und andere Inhalte auf der EDSA-Website und seinen Social-Media-Kanälen (Twitter: @EU_EDPB; LinkedIn: Europäischer Datenschutzausschuss), um die Datenschutzgemeinschaft und die Öffentlichkeit über ihre Arbeit auf dem neuesten Stand zu halten.

Die EDPB-Website verfügt außerdem über zwei RSS-Feeds, die Sie für automatische Updates zu EDPB- Nachrichten und den neuesten Veröffentlichungen des EDSA abonnieren können.

The archived documents adopted by the Article 29 Working Party (1997-2016) are available on the website of the European Commission here: WP29 archive.

Should you experience any difficulty accessing WP29 documents, we recommend contacting the European Commission's DG Justice. The European Commission provided the Secretariat for the Article 29 Working Party and was responsible for all its publications. 

You can contact them by filling out the following form

Once a public consultation is closed, all contributions to the public consultation are reviewed and, where necessary, the guidelines may be adapted. Once this process has been completed, the guidelines will be up for final adoption at a subsequent EDPB plenary.

All comments submitted are screened and reviewed manually before being displayed on our website. There should have been a visual confirmation after submitting your comments on our website.

In any case, please allow for some time before your comments are published.

Unfortunately, the EDPB cannot consider late contributions as part of the public consultation.