GDPR·Article Article 68·low·Component: Chapter VII: Cooperation and Consistency

What this control requires

Establish the European Data Protection Board as a Union body with legal personality, composed of heads of Member State supervisory authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor. Ensure the Chair represents the Board and communicates activities to the Commission, which participates without voting rights, except in specific cases under Article 65. This control addresses Cooperation and Consistency.
— GDPR, Article Article 68

In plain English

Establish the European Data Protection Board as a Union body with legal personality, composed of heads of Member State supervisory authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor. In practice, this means you can prove you data body-level controls on a defined cadence.

Why it matters

GDPR administrative fines reach the greater of €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) coordinates supervisory-authority enforcement across the EU/EEA, and DPAs publish enforcement decisions citing specific Articles.

What an auditor looks for

A DPA or privacy auditor expects: a Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) entry, a documented lawful basis, evidence the Article's data-subject right is operationalised end-to-end, a named DPO contact (where required), and Article 30 records that match what the front-end actually does.

Within Chapter VII: Cooperation and Consistency, the assessor will trace your implementation back to the catalogue reference (Article Article 68) and look for objective evidence on the latest two assessment cycles.

How to implement

Policy Management

Docs. Keep each policy in version-controlled Markdown alongside the code that implements it; ship a signed PDF snapshot at each annual review and link the SHA into the SoA.

Operational checklist

  • Data. Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
  • Cooperation. Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
  • Supervisory. Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
  • Consistency. Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
  • European. Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
  • Scope: body, rights, board, article, data protection board, commission, chair.

Evidence to collect

  • Policy Document. A signed and version-controlled policy / standard / procedure document.

Signed policy or standard documents the safeguard. Focus: European Data Protection Board.

Common pitfalls

  • Policies that no engineer has read; the version in Confluence drifts from the version that's actually being enforced.

Related controls in GDPR

References

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