Frequently Asked Questions

Ο ΓΚΠΔ ή ο Γενικός Κανονισμός για την Προστασία Δεδομένων δημιουργεί ένα εναρμονισμένο σύνολο κανόνων που εφαρμόζονται σε κάθε επεξεργασία προσωπικών δεδομένων από οργανισμούς (δημόσιους ή ιδιωτικούς, ανεξάρτητα από το μέγεθός τους) που είναι εγκατεστημένοι στον Ευρωπαϊκό Οικονομικό Χώρο (ΕΟΧ) ή στοχεύουν άτομα στην ΕΕ. Πρωταρχικός στόχος του ΓΚΠΔ είναι να διασφαλίσει ότι τα προσωπικά δεδομένα απολαύουν του ίδιου υψηλού επιπέδου προστασίας οπουδήποτε  στον ΕΟΧ, αυξάνοντας την ασφάλεια δικαίου τόσο για τα φυσικά πρόσωπα όσο και για τους οργανισμούς που επεξεργάζονται δεδομένα και προσφέροντας υψηλό επίπεδο προστασίας στα φυσικά πρόσωπα.

Ο κανονισμός τέθηκε σε ισχύ στις 24 Μαΐου 2016 και εφαρμόζεται από τις 25 Μαΐου 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

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)

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

Το ΕΣΠΔ δημοσιεύει τακτικά δελτία τύπου, νέα, ιστολόγια και άλλο περιεχόμενο στον ιστότοπό του και στα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσής του (Twitter: @EU_EDPB· LinkedIn: Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο Προστασίας Δεδομένων) προκειμένου να ενημερώνει την κοινότητα προστασίας δεδομένων και το ευρύ κοινό σχετικά με τις εργασίες του.

Ο ιστότοπος του ΕΣΠΔ διαθέτει επίσης δύο τροφοδοσίες RSS, στις οποίες μπορείτε να εγγραφείτε για αυτόματες ενημερώσεις σχετικά με τα νέα του ΕΣΠΔ και τις τελευταίες δημοσιεύσεις του.

If you believe your data protection rights have been violated you can contact the organisation holding your data, contact your national data protection authority (DPA), or go to a national court.

DPAs can conduct investigations and impose sanctions where necessary. You can find the contact details for all EEA DPAs here.

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 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.

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