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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL Stronger protection, new opportunities - Commission guidance on the direct application of the General Data Protection Regulation as of 25 May 2018 · European Union

The establishment of fully independent supervisory authorities in each Member State is essential to ensure the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of their personal data in the EU 44 . Supervisory authorities cannot effectively safeguard individual rights and freedoms unless they act completely independently. Any failure to ensure their independence and the effective exercise of their powers has a wide-ranging negative impact on the enforcement of data protection legislation 45 .

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.