Artikel 26 📖 DSGVO. Gemeinsam Verantwortliche

Artikel 26 DSGVO. Gemeinsam Verantwortliche

Article 26 GDPR. Joint controllers

(1) Legen zwei oder mehr Verantwortliche gemeinsam die Zwecke der und die Mittel zur Verarbeitung fest, so sind sie gemeinsam Verantwortliche. Sie legen in einer Vereinbarung in transparenter Form fest, wer von ihnen welche Verpflichtung gemäß dieser Verordnung erfüllt, insbesondere was die Wahrnehmung der Rechte der betroffenen Person angeht, und wer welchen Informationspflichten gemäß den Artikeln 13 und 14 nachkommt, sofern und soweit die jeweiligen Aufgaben der Verantwortlichen nicht durch Rechtsvorschriften der Union oder der Mitgliedstaaten, denen die Verantwortlichen unterliegen, festgelegt sind. In der Vereinbarung kann eine Anlaufstelle für die betroffenen Personen angegeben werden.

1. Where two or more controllers jointly determine the purposes and means of processing, they shall be joint controllers. They shall in a transparent manner determine their respective responsibilities for compliance with the obligations under this Regulation, in particular as regards the exercising of the rights of the data subject and their respective duties to provide the information referred to in Articles 13 and 14, by means of an arrangement between them unless, and in so far as, the respective responsibilities of the controllers are determined by Union or Member State law to which the controllers are subject. The arrangement may designate a contact point for data subjects.

Verbindungen

Artikel 13 DSGVO. Informationspflicht bei Erhebung von personenbezogenen Daten bei der betroffenen Person

Article 13 GDPR. Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject

Artikel 14 DSGVO. Informationspflicht, wenn die personenbezogenen Daten nicht bei der betroffenen Person erhoben wurden

Article 14 GDPR. Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject

(2) Die Vereinbarung gemäß Absatz 1 muss die jeweiligen tatsächlichen Funktionen und Beziehungen der gemeinsam Verantwortlichen gegenüber betroffenen Personen gebührend widerspiegeln. Das wesentliche der Vereinbarung wird der betroffenen Person zur Verfügung gestellt.

2. The arrangement referred to in paragraph 1 shall duly reflect the respective roles and relationships of the joint controllers vis-à-vis the data subjects. The essence of the arrangement shall be made available to the data subject.

Verbindungen

Article 29 Working Party Guidelines on transparency under Regulation 2016/679

Separately, the issue of joint controllers is also related to making data subjects aware of the risks, rules and safeguards. Article 26.1 requires joint controllers to determine their respective responsibilities for complying with obligations under the GDPR in a transparent manner, in particular with regard to the exercise by data subjects of their rights and the duties to provide the information under Articles 13 and 14. Article 26.2 requires that the essence of the arrangement between the data controllers must be made available to the data subject. In other words, it must be completely clear to a data a subject as to which data controller he or she can approach where they intend to exercise one or more of their rights under the GDPR.[39]

_{[39] Under Article 26.3, irrespective of the terms of the arrangement between joint data controllers under Article 26.1, a data subject may exercise his or her rights under the GDPR in respect of and against each of the joint data controllers.}

(3) Ungeachtet der Einzelheiten der Vereinbarung gemäß Absatz 1 kann die betroffene Person ihre Rechte im Rahmen dieser Verordnung bei und gegenüber jedem einzelnen der Verantwortlichen geltend machen.

3. Irrespective of the terms of the arrangement referred to in paragraph 1, the data subject may exercise his or her rights under this Regulation in respect of and against each of the controllers.

Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO)

Letzte konsolidierte Fassung (inkl. Berichtigung, ABl. L 314 vom 22.11.2016, S. (2016/679), Berichtigung, ABl. L 127 vom 23.5.2018, S. (2016/679)). EUR-lex

General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR)

The latest consolidated version of the Regulation with corrections by Corrigendum, OJ L 127, 23.5.2018, p. 2 ((EU) 2016/679). Source: EUR-lex.

Erläuterung ISO 27701 Erwägungsgrund Leitlinien und Gerichtsurteile Leave a comment

Erläuterung

(EN) The expression “joint controller” is one of the most difficult to grasp in practice. It is nonetheless essential to delimit the role of the parties involved in the processing of personal data to determine their responsibilities under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Louis-Philippe Gratton PhD, LLM

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ISO 27701

(EN) ISO/IEC 27701, adopted in 2019, added additional ISO/IEC 27002 guidance for PII controllers.

Here is the relevant paragraph to articles 26(1), 26(2), and 26(3) GDPR:

7.2.7 Joint PII controller

Control

The organization should determine respective roles and responsibilities for the processing of PII (including PII protection and security requirements) with any joint PII controller.

Implementation guidance

Roles and responsibilities for the processing of PII should be determined in a transparent manner.

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Erwägungsgrund

(79) Zum Schutz der Rechte und Freiheiten der betroffenen Personen sowie bezüglich der Verantwortung und Haftung der Verantwortlichen und der Auftragsverarbeiter bedarf es — auch mit Blick auf die Überwachungs- und sonstigen Maßnahmen von Aufsichtsbehörden — einer klaren Zuteilung der Verantwortlichkeiten durch diese Verordnung, einschließlich der Fälle, in denen ein Verantwortlicher die Verarbeitungszwecke und -mittel gemeinsam mit anderen Verantwortlichen festlegt oder ein Verarbeitungsvorgang im Auftrag eines Verantwortlichen durchgeführt wird.

(79) The protection of the rights and freedoms of data subjects as well as the responsibility and liability of controllers and processors, also in relation to the monitoring by and measures of supervisory authorities, requires a clear allocation of the responsibilities under this Regulation, including where a controller determines the purposes and means of the processing jointly with other controllers or where a processing operation is carried out on behalf of a controller.

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Documents

Article 29 Working Party, Opinion 1/2010 on the concepts of „controller“ and „processor“ (2010).

EDPS, Guidelines on the Concepts of Controller, Processor and Joint Controllership Under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 (2019).

EDPB, Guidelines 7/2020 on the Concepts of Controller and Processor in the GDPR (2021).

EDPB, Guidelines 8/2020 on the targeting of social media users (2020).

ICO, Right of Access (2020).

ICO, Data sharing: a code of practice (2020).

EDPB, Guidelines 02/2021 on Virtual Voice Assistants (2021).

Case Law

CJEU, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein/Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein GmbH, C-210/16 (2018).

CJEU, Tietosuojavaltuutettu v Jehovan todistajat, C-25/17 (2018):

The existence of joint responsibility does not necessarily imply equal responsibility of the various operators involved in the processing of personal data. On the contrary, those operators may be involved at different stages of that processing of personal data and to different degrees, so that the level of responsibility of each of them must be assessed with regard to all the relevant circumstances of the particular case. Actual access to personal data is not a prerequisite for joint responsibility (p. 68-72).

CJEU, Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG/Verbraucherzentrale NRW eV, C-40/17 (2019).