Official documentation
Art. 83 GDPR: General conditions for imposing administrative fines
gdpr-info.eu (Intersoft Consulting), 2016
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- What it is
- The full text of Article 83 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, which sets the maximum administrative fines for breaches including unlawful processing of special category data.
- How much weight it carries
- A faithful reproduction of the regulation text on a long-running reference site, not the Official Journal itself. The legal text is authoritative; the site layout and annotations are not.
Facts taken from this source
- Breaches of the GDPR's core processing rules can be fined up to 20 million euros, or up to 4 percent of total worldwide annual turnover for an undertaking.
“administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year” (Article 83(5))