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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 1: General provisions</div>
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[[Article 1 GDPR|Article 1: Subject-matter and objectives]]<br />
[[Article 2 GDPR|Article 2: Material scope]]<br />
[[Article 3 GDPR|Article 3: Territorial scope]]<br />
[[Article 4 GDPR|Article 4: Definitions]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 2: Principles</div>
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[[Article 5 GDPR|Article 5: Principles relating to processing of personal data]]<br />
[[Article 6 GDPR|Article 6: Lawfulness of processing]]<br />
[[Article 7 GDPR|Article 7: Conditions for consent]]<br />
[[Article 8 GDPR|Article 8: Conditions applicable to child’s consent in relation to information society services]]<br />
[[Article 9 GDPR|Article 9: Processing of special categories of personal data]]<br />
[[Article 10 GDPR|Article 10: Processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences]]<br />
[[Article 11 GDPR|Article 11: Processing which does not require identification]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 3: Rights of the data subject</div>
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[[Article 12 GDPR|Article 12: Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject]]<br />
[[Article 13 GDPR|Article 13: Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject]]<br />
[[Article 14 GDPR|Article 14: Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject]]<br />
[[Article 15 GDPR|Article 15: Right of access by the data subject]]<br />
[[Article 16 GDPR|Article 16: Right to rectification]]<br />
[[Article 17 GDPR|Article 17: Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)]]<br />
[[Article 18 GDPR|Article 18: Right to restriction of processing]]<br />
[[Article 19 GDPR|Article 19: Notification obligation regarding rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing]]<br />
[[Article 20 GDPR|Article 20: Right to data portability]]<br />
[[Article 21 GDPR|Article 21: Right to object]]<br />
[[Article 22 GDPR|Article 22: Automated individual decision-making, including profiling]]<br />
[[Article 23 GDPR|Article 23: Restrictions]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 4: Controller and processor</div>
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[[Article 24 GDPR|Article 24: Responsibility of the controller]]<br />
[[Article 25 GDPR|Article 25: Data protection by design and by default]]<br />
[[Article 26 GDPR|Article 26: Joint controllers]]<br />
[[Article 27 GDPR|Article 27: Representatives of controllers or processors not established in the Union]]<br />
[[Article 28 GDPR|Article 28: Processor]]<br />
[[Article 29 GDPR|Article 29: Processing under the authority of the controller or processor]]<br />
[[Article 30 GDPR|Article 30: Records of processing activities]]<br />
[[Article 31 GDPR|Article 31: Cooperation with the supervisory authority]]<br />
[[Article 32 GDPR|Article 32: Security of processing]]<br />
[[Article 33 GDPR|Article 33: Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority]]<br />
[[Article 34 GDPR|Article 34: Communication of a personal data breach to the data subject]]<br />
[[Article 35 GDPR|Article 35: Data protection impact assessment]]<br />
[[Article 36 GDPR|Article 36: Prior consultation]]<br />
[[Article 37 GDPR|Article 37: Designation of the data protection officer]]<br />
[[Article 38 GDPR|Article 38: Position of the data protection officer]]<br />
[[Article 39 GDPR|Article 39: Tasks of the data protection officer]]<br />
[[Article 40 GDPR|Article 40: Codes of conduct]]<br />
[[Article 41 GDPR|Article 41: Monitoring of approved codes of conduct]]<br />
[[Article 42 GDPR|Article 42: Certification]]<br />
[[Article 43 GDPR|Article 43: Certification bodies]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 5: Transfers of personal data</div>
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[[Article 44 GDPR|Article 44: General principle for transfers]]<br />
[[Article 45 GDPR|Article 45: Transfers on the basis of an adequacy decision]]<br />
[[Article 46 GDPR|Article 46: Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards]]<br />
[[Article 47 GDPR|Article 47: Binding corporate rules]]<br />
[[Article 48 GDPR|Article 48: Transfers or disclosures not authorised by Union law]]<br />
[[Article 49 GDPR|Article 49: Derogations for specific situations]]<br />
[[Article 50 GDPR|Article 50: International cooperation for the protection of personal data]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 6: Supervisory authorities</div>
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[[Article 51 GDPR|Article 51: Supervisory authority]]<br />
[[Article 52 GDPR|Article 52: Independence]]<br />
[[Article 53 GDPR|Article 53: General conditions for the members of the supervisory authority]]<br />
[[Article 54 GDPR|Article 54: Rules on the establishment of the supervisory authority]]<br />
[[Article 55 GDPR|Article 55: Competence]]<br />
[[Article 56 GDPR|Article 56: Competence of the lead supervisory authority]]<br />
[[Article 57 GDPR|Article 57: Tasks]]<br />
[[Article 58 GDPR|Article 58: Powers]]<br />
[[Article 59 GDPR|Article 59: Activity reports]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 7: Cooperation and consistency</div>
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[[Article 60 GDPR|Article 60: Cooperation between the lead supervisory authority and the other supervisory authorities concerned]]<br />
[[Article 61 GDPR|Article 61: Mutual assistance]]<br />
[[Article 62 GDPR|Article 62: Joint operations of supervisory authorities]]<br />
[[Article 63 GDPR|Article 63: Consistency mechanism]]<br />
[[Article 64 GDPR|Article 64: Opinion of the Board]]<br />
[[Article 65 GDPR|Article 65: Dispute resolution by the Board]]<br />
[[Article 66 GDPR|Article 66: Urgency procedure]]<br />
[[Article 67 GDPR|Article 67: Exchange of information]]<br />
[[Article 68 GDPR|Article 68: European Data Protection Board]]<br />
[[Article 69 GDPR|Article 69: Independence]]<br />
[[Article 70 GDPR|Article 70: Tasks of the Board]]<br />
[[Article 71 GDPR|Article 71: Reports]]<br />
[[Article 72 GDPR|Article 72: Procedure]]<br />
[[Article 73 GDPR|Article 73: Chair]]<br />
[[Article 74 GDPR|Article 74: Tasks of the Chair]]<br />
[[Article 75 GDPR|Article 75: Secretariat]]<br />
[[Article 76 GDPR|Article 76: Confidentiality]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 8: Remedies, liability and penalties</div>
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[[Article 77 GDPR|Article 77: Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority]]<br />
[[Article 78 GDPR|Article 78: Right to an effective judicial remedy against a supervisory authority]]<br />
[[Article 79 GDPR|Article 79: Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor]]<br />
[[Article 80 GDPR|Article 80: Representation of data subjects]]<br />
[[Article 81 GDPR|Article 81: Suspension of proceedings]]<br />
[[Article 82 GDPR|Article 82: Right to compensation and liability]]<br />
[[Article 83 GDPR|Article 83: General conditions for imposing administrative fines]]<br />
[[Article 84 GDPR|Article 84: Penalties]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 9: Specific processing situations</div>
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[[Article 85 GDPR|Article 85: Processing and freedom of expression and information]]<br />
[[Article 86 GDPR|Article 86: Processing and public access to official documents]]<br />
[[Article 87 GDPR|Article 87: Processing of the national identification number]]<br />
[[Article 88 GDPR|Article 88: Processing in the context of employment]]<br />
[[Article 89 GDPR|Article 89: Safeguards and derogations relating to processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes]]<br />
[[Article 90 GDPR|Article 90: Obligations of secrecy]]<br />
[[Article 91 GDPR|Article 91: Existing data protection rules of churches and religious associations]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 10: Delegated and implementing acts</div>
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[[Article 92 GDPR|Article 92: Exercise of the delegation]]<br />
[[Article 93 GDPR|Article 93: Committee procedure]]<br />
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Chapter 11: Final provisions</div>
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[[Article 94 GDPR|Article 94: Repeal of Directive 95: /46: /EC]]<br />
[[Article 95 GDPR|Article 95: Relationship with Directive 20: 02: /58: /EC]]<br />
[[Article 96 GDPR|Article 96: Relationship with previously concluded Agreements]]<br />
[[Article 97 GDPR|Article 97: Commission reports]]<br />
[[Article 98 GDPR|Article 98: Review of other Union legal acts on data protection]]<br />
[[Article 99 GDPR|Article 99: Entry into force and application]]<br />
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== Legal Text ==
<br /><center>'''Article 66 - Urgency procedure'''</center>

<span id="1">1. In exceptional circumstances, where a supervisory authority concerned considers that there is an urgent need to act in order to protect the rights and freedoms of data subjects, it may, by way of derogation from the consistency mechanism referred to in Articles 63, 64 and 65 or the procedure referred to in Article 60, immediately adopt provisional measures intended to produce legal effects on its own territory with a specified period of validity which shall not exceed three months. The supervisory authority shall, without delay, communicate those measures and the reasons for adopting them to the other supervisory authorities concerned, to the Board and to the Commission.</span>

<span id="2">2. Where a supervisory authority has taken a measure pursuant to paragraph 1 and considers that final measures need urgently be adopted, it may request an urgent opinion or an urgent binding decision from the Board, giving reasons for requesting such opinion or decision.</span>

<span id="3">3. Any supervisory authority may request an urgent opinion or an urgent binding decision, as the case may be, from the Board where a competent supervisory authority has not taken an appropriate measure in a situation where there is an urgent need to act, in order to protect the rights and freedoms of data subjects, giving reasons for requesting such opinion or decision, including for the urgent need to act.</span>

<span id="4">4. By derogation from Article 64(3) and Article 65(2), an urgent opinion or an urgent binding decision referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article shall be adopted within two weeks by simple majority of the members of the Board.</span>

== Relevant Recitals==
{{Recital/137 GDPR}}
{{Recital/138 GDPR}}

== Commentary ==
Article 66 GDPR provides for an exception to the cooperation mechanism. Under certain conditions, mostly related to reasons of urgency and the need to protect the rights of the data subject, the supervisory authority (“''SA''”) is given the possibility to adopt provisional measures valid on its territory. The same article also provides some specific rules for the intervention of the EDPB and the timing of its decision.

=== (1) Adoption of Provisional Measures ===
In exceptional circumstances, where a SA concerned (“''CSA''”) (Article 4(22) GDPR) considers that there is an urgent need to act in order to protect the rights and freedoms of data subjects, it may, by way of derogation from the consistency mechanism (Articles 60, 63, 64 and 65 GDPR) immediately adopt provisional measures intended to produce legal effects on its own territory. Article 66 GDPR creates strict conditions for cross-border cases when a SA wishes to act on its own without consulting the other CSAs. Three conditions must be fulfilled in this regard, namely (1) exceptional circumstances, (2) an urgent need to act and (3) the need for protection of the rights and freedoms of data subjects.<ref>CJEU, C-645/19, 15 June 2021, Facebook Ireland, margin number 59 (available [https://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-645/19 here]).</ref> The latter is fulfilled if a concrete and immediate damage or disadvantage is to be expected.<ref>''Georgieva'' in Kuner et al, The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A Commentary, p. 1030 (Oxford University Press 2020).</ref> In such cases, the SA<ref>Such a SA can of course be a CSA, but also the lead supervisory authority (“''LSA''”), if the latest considers that the measure should be adopted urgently without going through the cooperation mechanism.</ref> can adopt a measure which is limited to its territory and the duration of which cannot be longer than three months.<ref>See e.g., Garante, 22 January 2021, TikTok, Case 9524194 (available [https://www.gpdp.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9524194 here]).</ref> This decision must be motivated and communicated to the Commission and the EDPB and to the “''other SAs concerned''”.<ref>''Georgieva'' correctly points out that "[h]''owever, the urgent measure can only be addressed when its addressee has either an establishment or a representative in the territory of the SA concerned. This means that the provision does not apply if the SA is 'concerned' by the processing of personal data under Article 4(22)(6) or (c) (i.e. when data subjects are substantially affected or a complaint has been lodged with that SA) but there is no one on its territory against whom the measures can be addressed''". See, ''Georgieva'' in Kuner et al, The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A Commentary, p. 1030 (Oxford University Press 2020).</ref>

==== Presumption of Urgency ====
The GDPR foresees two cases where the urgency requirement is presumed, namely when a SA does not answer within one month to a request for mutual assistance (Article 61(8) GDPR) or to a request of joint operations (Article 62(7) GDPR).<ref>Situations in which the urgency of the measures is presumed may cover, for example, cases where an CSA is potentially faced with persistent inertia from the LSA in charge. Opinion of the Advocate General Bobek on Case C-645/19, margin number 135 (available [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A62019CC0645 here]).</ref> On 12 July 2021, the EDPB adopted an urgent binding decision under Article 66 GDPR, at the request of the Hamburg SA which adopted provisional measures under Article 66(1) GDPR, based on its consideration that the circumstances were exceptional and there was an urgent need to act to protect the rights and freedoms of data subjects.<ref>EDPB, 12 July 2021, Urgent Binding Decision 01/2021 on the request under Article 66(2) GDPR from the Hamburg (German) Supervisory Authority for ordering the adoption of final measures regarding Facebook Ireland Limited (available [https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2021-07/edpb_urgentbindingdecision_20210712_requesthh_fbireland_en.pdf here]).</ref> The Hamburg SA considered that the urgency requirement was presumed, as specifically stated by Article 61(8) GDPR. However, the Hamburg SA had made some specific requests through the IMI system by using, in particular, the VMA channel (Voluntary Mutual Assistance). According to the interpretation provided by the EDPB, “[u]''nlike formal Article 61 GDPR requests, the SA receiving a VMA request does not have a legal obligation to answer to that request''”.<ref>EDPB, 12 July 2021, Urgent Binding Decision 01/2021 on the request under Article 66(2) GDPR from the Hamburg (German) Supervisory Authority for ordering the adoption of final measures regarding Facebook Ireland Limited, margin number 177 (available [https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2021-07/edpb_urgentbindingdecision_20210712_requesthh_fbireland_en.pdf here]).</ref> Therefore, the EDPB considered that the urgency was not established considering that the Hamburg SA “''did not formally launch an Article 61 GDPR request in the IMI system to the LSA, but merely sent a letter replying to the VMA request flow initiated by the IE SA''”''.'' Furthermore, the urgency needed to be demonstrated under Article 66(2) GDPR, which could not be done in the present case.<ref>EDPB, 12 July 2021, Urgent Binding Decision 01/2021 on the request under Article 66(2) GDPR from the Hamburg (German) Supervisory Authority for ordering the adoption of final measures regarding Facebook Ireland Limited, margin numbers 180, 181, 196 (available [https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2021-07/edpb_urgentbindingdecision_20210712_requesthh_fbireland_en.pdf here]).</ref>
=== (2) Adoption of a Final Decision after Provisional Measures ===
When the SA that has adopted the provisional measure under Article 66(1) GDPR considers that a final decision should be adopted, it should refer the matter to the EDPB, which shall adopt an urgent opinion or urgent decision. The reasons for asking such a final decision should clearly be substantiated by the requesting SA.<ref>It is not clear what kind of urgent opinion the SA could ask the EDPB to adopt: while one can understand that a decision implying a coercive measure can be adopted by a SA, it is not clear what kind of urgent opinion the EDPB could adopt, having a look in particular to the list of opinions under Article 64 GDPR.</ref> In the cases foreseen by Articles 61(8) and 62(7) GDPR, the reference to the EDPB is mandatory.<ref>See paragraph “''Presumption of Urgency''” above under Article 66(1) GDPR.</ref>
=== (3) Adoption of a Final Decision of the EDPB Without Provisional Measures ===
The authority addressed under Article 66(1)-(2) GDPR is the CSA within the meaning of Article 4(22) GDPR. In contrast, Article 66(3) refers to “''any supervisory authority''” (Article 4(21) GDPR) and allows it to request an urgent opinion or an urgent binding decision from the EDPB where a CSA has not taken an appropriate measure in a situation where there is an urgent need to act, in order to protect the rights and freedoms of data subjects.

=== (4) Procedure ===
As a derogation to the “''regular''” procedure to be followed to adopt opinions and decisions under Articles 64(3) and 65(2) GDPR, the deadline for the EDPB to adopt the decision or opinion shall be reduced to two weeks, and a simple majority will be needed (instead of a two-third majority in the cases of Article 65(2) GDPR). It remains to be seen how the EDPB will be able to deal with multiple cases, should the SA decide to use the possibility offered to them under Article 66 GDPR.

== Decisions ==
→ You can find all related decisions in [[:Category:Article 66 GDPR]]

== References ==
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