Supervisory Authority
What is Supervisory Authority?
An independent public authority established by an EU member state responsible for monitoring the application of GDPR within its territory. Supervisory authorities have investigative, corrective, and advisory powers.
Terms that appear alongside supervisory authority
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as supervisory authority. The number is how many controls name both.
- data protection 51 shared controls
- gdpr 42 shared controls
- compliance 18 shared controls
- data subject 16 shared controls
- consent 14 shared controls
- encryption 10 shared controls
- impact assessment 10 shared controls
- data breach 9 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on supervisory authority
Requirements naming supervisory authority across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The controller draws up a report on the personal data breach and submits it to the supervisory authority not later than seventy-two hours with all available facts, describing at least the nature of the breach including where possible the categories and approxi...
rwanda-dpl::44 · Breach report to the supervisory authority within 72 hours →The controller and the processor and, where applicable, their representatives must cooperate, on request, with the supervisory authority in the performance of its tasks.
GDPR-Art.31 · Cooperation with the supervisory authority →Supervisory authority for police information. Article 71 establishes, within the Chamber of Representatives, the independent Supervisory Body for Police Information (Controleorgaan op de politionele informatie / Organe de controle de l'information policiere) o...
BE-DPA-19 · Supervisory authority for police information →The supervisory authority under GDPR Art. 51 is the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency (AZOP), an independent state body answerable to the Croatian Parliament, seated in Zagreb.
HR-GDPR-Art.4 · Supervisory Authority (AZOP) →Tietosuojalaki Sections 8-13 - Data Protection Ombudsman (Tietosuojavaltuutettu, official English title: Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman).
FiDPA-Tietosuojavaltuutettu · Data Protection Ombudsman (Tietosuojavaltuutettu) - Supervisory Authority →Bodies subject to supervision and their managers must give the supervisory authority, on request, the information it needs; a person may refuse answers that would expose them or close relatives to criminal or administrative prosecution and must be told of this...
germany-federal-data-protection-act-bdsg::s40-4-5 · s 40(4), (5) Give the Land supervisory authority information and tolerate on-site inspections →Questions people ask about supervisory authority
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