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Art. 42 GDPR: Certification
gdpr-info.eu (text of Regulation (EU) 2016/679), 2016
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- What it is
- The text of Article 42 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, which sets up voluntary data protection certification and says that certification does not reduce the responsibility of the controller or processor.
- How much weight it carries
- The regulation's text, reproduced on a reference site. The Official Journal of the EU is the authoritative version, and the English text here should be checked against it for legal purposes.
Facts taken from this source
- Under Article 42 of the GDPR, certification is voluntary, and a certification does not reduce the responsibility of the controller or the processor for compliance with the regulation.
“The certification shall be voluntary and available via a process that is transparent. A certification pursuant to this Article does not reduce the responsibility of the controller or the processor for compliance with this Regulation” (Article 42(3) and 42(7))