Article 83 of the GDPR provides for two levels of administrative fines: a lower level – maximum of €10 million or 2% of the global turnover – for violations relating to record-keeping, data security, data protection impact assessments, data protection by design and default, and data processing agreements; and a higher level – maximum of €20 million or 4% of the global turnover – for violations relating to data protection principles, the legal basis for processing, information to data subjects, the prohibition of processing sensitive data, denial of data subjects’ rights, and data transfers to non-EU countries.In addition to setting two levels of administrative fines, Article 83 of the GDPR provides criteria that national supervisory authorities must apply when setting administrative fines. On 3 October 2017, the Article 29 Working Party – a body now called the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) – issued guidelines (“EDPB Guidelines”) on the setting of administrative fines.
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