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ARTICLE · 22 APRIL 2024

Stricter Rules For The GDPR's One-Stop-Shop?

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On 13 February 2024, further to a request from the French Supervisory Authority, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted its Opinion 04/2024 (Opinion)...

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On 13 February 2024, further to a request from the French Supervisory Authority, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted its Opinion 04/2024 (Opinion) on the notion of the main establishment of a controller in the European Union (EU) under Article 4(16)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and on the criteria for the application of the "One-Stop-Shop" (OSS) mechanism concerning a controller's "place of central administration" in the EU.

Main Establishment and the One-Stop-Shop Mechanism

A key hallmark of the GDPR is the OSS consistency mechanism, which aims to simplify the supervision and enforcement of the GDPR within the EU.

The OSS allows organisations operating in multiple EU Member States to be under the auspices of a single supervisory authority based in the Member State of the organisation's main establishment, known as the organisation's Lead Supervisory Authority (LSA).

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