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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1502/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2020/1502",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision (EU) 2020/1502 of 15 October 2020 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 by the Commission in the cooperation mechanism established by Regulation (EU) 2019/452 of the European Parliament and of the Council",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1502",
  "path": "article/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Right of access by data subject, right of erasure and right to restriction of processing",
  "text": "1. Where the Commission restricts, wholly or partly, the right of access to personal data by data subjects, the right of erasure, or the right to restriction of processing, as referred to respectively in Articles 17, 19 and 20 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, it shall inform the data subject concerned, in its reply to the request for access, erasure or restriction of processing:\n(a) of the restriction applied and of the principal reasons thereof; and\n(b) of the possibility of lodging a complaint with the European Data Protection Supervisor or of seeking a judicial remedy in the Court of Justice of the European Union.\n2. The provision of information concerning the reasons for the restriction referred to in paragraph 1 may be deferred, omitted or denied for as long as it would undermine the purpose of the restriction.\n3. The Commission shall record and register the reasons for the restriction in accordance with Article 6.\n4. Where the right of access is wholly or partly restricted, the data subject may exercise his or her right of access through the intermediary of the European Data Protection Supervisor, in accordance with Article 25(6), (7) and (8) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/1502/article/4",
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  },
  "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."
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