7 NATIONAL SUPERVISION WITHIN AN INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK

Richard Hall

This chapter provides an overview of the role and powers of the EU and UK data protection supervisory authorities, who are the national regulatory bodies that are responsible for the monitoring and enforcement of the law in the land mass of the GDPR, as well as the requirements for identifying and selecting a lead supervisory authority and appointing European representative.

NATIONAL REGULATORY SYSTEMS AND DIVERGENCES

As with any piece of legislation, the GDPR needs a body, or bodies, to have the responsibility and powers to monitor and enforce compliance, without which there would be no real motivation (outside morality and reputational reasons) for compliance, especially ...

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