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Effective protection of personal data throughout the Union requires the strengthening and setting out in detail of
the rights of data subjects and the obligations of those who process and determine the processing of personal
data, as well as equivalent powers for monitoring and ensuring compliance with the rules for the protection of
personal data and equivalent sanctions for infringements in the Member States.
(12) Article 16(2) TFEU mandates the European Parliament and the Council to lay down the rules relating to the
protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the rules relating to the free
movement of personal data.
(13) In order to ensure a consistent level of protection for natural persons throughout the Union and to prevent
divergences hampering the free movement of personal data within the internal market, a Regulation is necessary
to provide legal certainty and transparency for economic operators, including micro, small and medium-sized
enterprises, and to provide natural persons in all Member States with the same level of legally enforceable rights
and obligations and responsibilities for controllers and processors, to ensure consistent monitoring of the
processing of personal data, and equivalent sanctions in all Member States as well as effective cooperation
between the supervisory authorities of different Member States. The proper functioning of the internal market
requires that the free movement of personal data within the Union is not restricted or prohibited for reasons
connected with the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data. To take account
of the specific situation of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, this Regulation includes a derogation for
organisations with fewer than 250 employees with regard to record-keeping. In addition, the Union institutions
and bodies, and Member States and their supervisory authorities, are encouraged to take account of the specific
needs of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the application of this Regulation. The notion of micro,
small and medium-sized enterprises should draw from Article 2 of the Annex to Commission Recommendation
2003/361/EC (
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).
(14) The protection afforded by this Regulation should apply to natural persons, whatever their nationality or place of
residence, in relation to the processing of their personal data. This Regulation does not cover the processing of
personal data which concerns legal persons and in particular undertakings established as legal persons, including
the name and the form of the legal person and the contact details of the legal person.
(15) In order to prevent creating a serious risk of circumvention, the protection of natural persons should be technolo-
gically neutral and should not depend on the techniques used. The protection of natural persons should apply to
the processing of personal data by automated means, as well as to manual processing, if the personal data are
contained or are intended to be contained in a filing system. Files or sets of files, as well as their cover pages,
which are not structured according to specific criteria should not fall within the scope of this Regulation.
(16) This Regulation does not apply to issues of protection of fundamental rights and freedoms or the free flow of
personal data related to activities which fall outside the scope of Union law, such as activities concerning national
security. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by the Member States when carrying
out activities in relation to the common foreign and security policy of the Union.
(17) Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council (
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) applies to the processing of
personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies. Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and other
Union legal acts applicable to such processing of personal data should be adapted to the principles and rules
established in this Regulation and applied in the light of this Regulation. In order to provide a strong and
coherent data protection framework in the Union, the necessary adaptations of Regulation (EC) No 45/2001
should follow after the adoption of this Regulation, in order to allow application at the same time as this
Regulation.
(18) This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely
personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity. Personal or
4.5.2016 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 119/3
(
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) Commission Recommendation of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium‑sized enterprises (C(2003) 1422)
(OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36).
(
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) Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with
regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data (OJ L 8,
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