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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1961/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1961/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/1961",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision (EU) 2018/1961 of 11 December 2018 laying down internal rules concerning the provision of information to data subjects and the restriction of certain of their rights in the context of the processing of personal data for the purpose of internal audit activities",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1961",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Duration of restrictions",
  "text": "1. Restrictions referred to in Articles 3, 4 and 5 of this Decision shall continue to apply as long as the reasons justifying them remain applicable.\n2. Where the reasons for a restriction referred to in Articles 3 or 5 of this Decision no longer apply, the Commission shall lift the restrictions and provide the principal reasons for the restriction to the data subject. At the same time, the Commission shall inform the data subject of the possibility of lodging a complaint with the European Data Protection Supervisor at any time or of seeking a judicial remedy in the Court of Justice of the European Union.\n3. The Commission shall review the application of the restriction referred to in Articles 3 and 5 of this Decision every six months from its adoption and before and after the closure of the relevant internal audit activity. Thereafter, the Commission shall monitor the need to maintain any restriction/deferral on an annual basis.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1961/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:54.614356+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}