interactive GDPR 2016/0679 EN

whereas meetings:

definitions:

• personal data
• processing
• restriction of processing
• profiling
• pseudonymisation
• filing system
• controller
• processor
• recipient
• third party
• consent
• personal data breach
• genetic data
• biometric data
• data concerning health
• main establishment
• representative
• enterprise
• group of undertakings
• binding corporate rules
• supervisory authority
• supervisory authority concerned
• cross-border processing
• relevant and reasoned objection
• information society service
• international organisation

Article 68

European Data Protection Board

1.   The European Data Protection Board (the ‘Board’) is hereby established as a body of the Union and shall have legal personality.

2.   The Board shall be represented by its Chair.

3.   The Board shall be composed of the head of one supervisory_authority of each Member State and of the European Data Protection Supervisor, or their respective representatives.

4.   Where in a Member State more than one supervisory_authority is responsible for monitoring the application of the provisions pursuant to this Regulation, a joint representative shall be appointed in accordance with that Member State's law.

5.   The Commission shall have the right to participate in the activities and meetings of the Board without voting right. The Commission shall designate a representative. The Chair of the Board shall communicate to the Commission the activities of the Board.

6.   In the cases referred to in Article 65, the European Data Protection Supervisor shall have voting rights only on decisions which concern principles and rules applicable to the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies which correspond in substance to those of this Regulation.

Article 74

Tasks of the Chair

1.   The Chair shall have the following tasks:

(a)	to convene the meetings of the Board and prepare its agenda;

(b)	to notify decisions adopted by the Board pursuant to Article 65 to the lead supervisory_authority and the supervisory authorities concerned;

(c)	to ensure the timely performance of the tasks of the Board, in particular in relation to the consistency mechanism referred to in Article 63.

2.   The Board shall lay down the allocation of tasks between the Chair and the deputy chairs in its rules of procedure.

Article 75

Secretariat

1.   The Board shall have a secretariat, which shall be provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor.

2.   The secretariat shall perform its tasks exclusively under the instructions of the Chair of the Board.

3.   The staff of the European Data Protection Supervisor involved in carrying out the tasks conferred on the Board by this Regulation shall be subject to separate reporting lines from the staff involved in carrying out tasks conferred on the European Data Protection Supervisor.

4.   Where appropriate, the Board and the European Data Protection Supervisor shall establish and publish a Memorandum of Understanding implementing this Article, determining the terms of their cooperation, and applicable to the staff of the European Data Protection Supervisor involved in carrying out the tasks conferred on the Board by this Regulation.

5.   The secretariat shall provide analytical, administrative and logistical support to the Board.

6.   The secretariat shall be responsible in particular for:

(a)	the day-to-day business of the Board;

(b)	communication between the members of the Board, its Chair and the Commission;

(c)	communication with other institutions and the public;

(d)	the use of electronic means for the internal and external communication;

(e)	the translation of relevant information;

(f)	the preparation and follow-up of the meetings of the Board;

(g)	the preparation, drafting and publication of opinions, decisions on the settlement of disputes between supervisory authorities and other texts adopted by the Board.