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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 Regulation gives all data protection authorities the power to impose fines on controllers and processors. Currently not all of them have this power. This will allow for better implementation of the rules. The fines can go up to EUR 20 million or, in the case of a company, 4% of the worldwide annual turnover;

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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.