Dutch Data Protection Authority
Organisation name in original language
Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
Category of human rights structure
Statutory human rights body
Country
Netherlands
Type(s) of body
Data Protection Authority (DPA)
Legal source(s)
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)(OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1),Chapter VI
- General Data Protection Regulation Implementation Act (Uitvoeringswet Algemene verordening gegevensbescherming), Articles 6–21a
- Decree on the Mandate, Authority and Authorisation of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Besluit mandaat, volmacht en machtiging Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens)
Human rights capacity support
Not applicableFunctions
- Oversight
- Providing remedy
- Collecting data on human rights violations
- Performing promotional activities
- Other
Specific mandates
- Any other function under international human rights conventions, under EU legislation or under the national legal system
Structured cooperation with partners at national level
- Provides advice on legislative proposals that wholly or significantly deal with the processing of personal data.
- Cooperates with a large number of other authorities and public actors.
Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level
- Cooperation with the other supervisory authorities concerned when the Dutch Data Protection Authority is the lead supervisory authority
- Assistance and cooperation with the supervisory authorities of other EU Member States
- Cooperation with the European Commission
- Member of the European Data Protection Board
- Member of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) Cooperation Board, the Joint Supervisory Body of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust), the European Dactyloscopy (Eurodac) Supervision Coordination Group, the Visa Information System Supervision Coordination Group, the Customs Information System Supervision Coordination Group and Joint Supervisory Authority and the Schengen Information System II Supervision Coordination Group
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