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Art. 80 GDPR · Chapter VIII: Remedies, liability and penalties

Article 80 GDPR: Representation of data subjects

Text as of 28 October 2026 Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026

Summary (not the official text)

The data subject has the right to mandate a not-for-profit body, organisation or association that meets the conditions in the article to lodge a complaint and exercise certain rights on his or her behalf. Member States may provide that such a body may act independently of a mandate.

Official text

The data subject shall have the right to mandate a not-for-profit body, organisation or association which has been properly constituted in accordance with the law of a Member State, has statutory objectives which are in the public interest, and is active in the field of the protection of data subjects' rights and freedoms with regard to the protection of their personal data to lodge the complaint on his or her behalf, to exercise the rights referred to in Articles 77, 78 and 79 on his or her behalf, and to exercise the right to receive compensation referred to in Article 82 on his or her behalf where provided for by Member State law.

Member States may provide that any body, organisation or association referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, independently of a data subject's mandate, has the right to lodge, in that Member State, a complaint with the supervisory authority which is competent pursuant to Article 77 and to exercise the rights referred to in Articles 78 and 79 if it considers that the rights of a data subject under this Regulation have been infringed as a result of the processing.

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

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Text as of 28 October 2026.

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