Art. 31 GDPR · Chapter IV: Controller and processor · Section 1: General obligations
Article 31 GDPR: Cooperation with the supervisory authority
Text as of 28 October 2026 Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026
Summary (not the official text)
Controllers and processors, and where applicable their representatives, must cooperate on request with the supervisory authority in the performance of its tasks.
Official text
The controller and the processor and, where applicable, their representatives, shall cooperate, on request, with the supervisory authority in the performance of its tasks.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Official Journal L 119, 4.5.2016, as corrected. Only the text published in the Official Journal is authentic. © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu
Text as of 28 October 2026.
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Fines
Amounts are shown in the currency in which the fine was imposed.
- Clearview AI: EUR 20,000,000
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), FranceDecision of 17 October 2022Appeal status: unknown
Facial-recognition firm scraped photos of people in France from the web with no legal basis, ignored access and erasure requests and did not cooperate with the CNIL; ordered to stop and delete, with a daily penalty.