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What does Recommendations mean? In legal practice, a Recommendation is an EU soft-law instrument used to signal the EU institutions’ preferred approach and to encourage Member States or other addressees to act, without creating enforceable rights or obligations. Provided for by Article 288 TFEU, Recommendations are non-binding, have no direct effect and do not impose legal duties on those to whom they are addressed. They are commonly used to guide policy implementation, align regulatory practice and indicate how existing EU law might be applied. Although lacking legal force, the Court of Justice of the European Union has held that courts should take Recommendations into consideration...

Board briefing and template: appointing a Data Protection Officer under the UK GDPR—requirements, analysis, recommendations and employer obligations

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Date: [ insert date ]

Introduction

Under the UK General Data protection Regulation (UK GDPR), some organisations are required to appoint a named individual as their Data Protection Officer (DPO). Having considered these duties in the context of [ insert name of organisation ]’s activities, this memorandum presents my conclusions and advice, together with the considerations that shaped them. A short overview of the UK GDPR provisions concerning DPOs is provided in the Appendix.

Factors relevant to [ insert name of organisation ]’s appointment of a DPO

Core activities

[ Describe the organisation’s main functions that entail processing personal data. Reflect, for instance, on whether a private body undertakes any public functions within its work ]

Controller or processor

[ Explain whether, in relation to the core activities above, the organisation acts as a controller or performs the role of a processor ]

Categories of data processed

[ Outline the kinds of data handled by the organisation, such as special category data, criminal offence records, employee information only, consumer data, or other sensitive data types ]...

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