Rina Steenkamp - Privacy and technology

My annotated General Data Protection Regulation

Chapter IX Provisions relating to specific data processing situations

Article 80a Access to documents

October 2013

Article 80a(1)

1. Personal data in documents held by a public authority or a public body may be disclosed by this authority or body in accordance with Union or Member State legislation regarding public access to official documents, which reconciles the right to the protection of personal data with the principle of public access to official documents.

Article 80a(2)

2. Each Member State shall notify to the Commission provisions of its law which it adopts pursuant to paragraph 1 by the date specified in Article 91(2) at the latest and, without delay, any subsequent amendment affecting them.

[Source: October 2013]