Frequently Asked Questions

GDPR eller General Data Protection Regulation oppretter et harmonisert sett med regler som gjelder for all behandling av personopplysninger av virksomheter (offentlig eller privat, uavhengig av størrelse) etablert i Det europeiske økonomiske samarbeidsområdet (EØS) eller rettet mot enkeltpersoner i EU. Hovedformålet med GDPR er å sikre at personopplysninger har samme høye beskyttelsesstandard overalt i EØS, økt rettssikkerhet for både enkeltpersoner og virksomheter som behandler personopplysninger, og tilbyr en høy grad av beskyttelse for enkeltpersoner.

Forordningen trådte i kraft 24. mai 2016 og gjelder fra 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)

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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.