Frequently Asked Questions

El RGPD o el Reglamento General de Protección de Datos crea un conjunto armonizado de normas aplicables a todos los tratamientos de datos personales por parte de organizaciones (públicas o privadas, independientemente de su tamaño) establecidas en el Espacio Económico Europeo (EEE) o dirigidas a personas físicas en la UE. El objetivo principal del RGPD es garantizar que los datos personales disfruten del mismo alto nivel de protección en todo el EEE, aumentando la seguridad jurídica tanto para las personas como para las organizaciones que procesan datos, y ofreciendo un alto grado de protección a las personas.

El Reglamento entró en vigor el 24 de mayo de 2016 y es aplicable desde el 25 de mayo de 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)

El CEPD publica regularmente comunicados de prensa, noticias, blogs y otros contenidos en el sitio web del CEPD y sus canales de redes sociales (Twitter: N.º @EU_EDPB; LinkedIn: Consejo Europeo de Protección de Datos) para mantener a la comunidad de protección de datos y al público en general al día de su labor.

El sitio web del CEPD también tiene dos canales RSS, a los que puede suscribirse para recibir actualizaciones automáticas sobre las noticias del CEPD y las últimas publicaciones del CEPD.

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

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

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.

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