Basic information about the regulation

Name of regulation
Competency of the supervisory authority in case of specific situations
Citation

Where the supervisory authority is of the opinion that the intended processing referred to in paragraph 1 would infringe this Regulation, in particular where the controller has insufficiently identified or mitigated the risk, the supervisory authority shall, within period of up to eight weeks of receipt of the request for consultation, provide written advice to the controller and, where applicable to the processor, and may use any of its powers referred to in Article 58. That period may be extended by six weeks, taking into account the complexity of the intended processing. The supervisory authority shall inform the controller and, where applicable, the processor, of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request for consultation together with the reasons for the delay. Those periods may be suspended until the supervisory authority has obtained information it has requested for the purposes of the consultation.

Legislative localisation Chapter IV, Section 3, Article 36, Paragraph 2
Regulation
subject-matter
Prior consultation (Article 36, Section 3, Chapter IV)
Regulation type Obligation
Indirect right
Regulation class Requirement
Subjects of regulation
Obligation Supervisory authority
Indirect right Controller
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