Chapter 4 Controller and processor Article 24 - Section 1 - General obligations Article 25 - Data protection by design and by default Article 26 - Joint controllers Article 27 - Representatives of controllers or processors not established in the United Kingdom Article 28 - Processor Article 29 - Processing under the authority of the controller or processor Article 30 - Records of processing activities Article 31 - Cooperation with the Commissioner Article 32 - Section 2 - Security of personal data Article 33 - Notification of a personal data breach to the Commissioner Article 34 - Communication of a personal data breach to the data subject Article 35 - Section 3 - Data protection impact assessment and prior consultation Article 36 - Prior consultation Article 37 - Section 4 - Data protection officer Article 38 - Position of the data protection officer Article 39 - Tasks of the data protection officer Article 40 - Section 5 - Codes of conduct and certification Article 41 - Monitoring of approved codes of conduct Article 42 - Certification Article 43 - Certification bodies Further Information This version of the UK GDPR is offered purely as what we hope will be a helpful resource. It does not have the status of law, and should not be relied on as such. Nor do we guarantee it is free from errors. It was originally prepared using a Keeling Schedule made available by the UK Government. Since then, a consolidated version has also been made available on the legislation.gov.uk pages. By virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal Act) 2018, the GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) was retained in United Kingdom law as "direct EU legislation". However, the effect of the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments Etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, as amended by the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments Etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, was, from 1 January 2021, immediately to make changes to the retained GDPR, and to refer to it as the "UK GDPR". These pages reflect those changes. This resource includes links to the GDPR recitals. The explanatory notes to the European Union (Withdrawal Act) 2018 confirm that where legislation is converted under section 3, it is the text of the legislation itself which will form part of domestic legislation, and this will include the full text of any EU instrument (including its recitals). Accordingly, recitals will continue to be interpreted as they were prior to the UK’s exit from the EU. They will, as before, be capable of casting light on the interpretation to be given to a legal rule, but they will not themselves have the status of a legal rule. However, it stands to reason that – as the recitals themselves have not been amended – they will in places contain language and references to EU bodies and rules which no longer apply to the UK. In this resource we link Articles of the UK GDPR to the corresponding recitals. In deciding which recitals correspond to which Articles of UK GDPR, we have drawn on the working document of the EU GDPR which the Information Commissioner had previously published in 2017. Downloads Working document of the EU GDPR published 2017 and archived on the National Archives website