{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/article-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/article-68.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/1307",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307",
  "path": "article/68",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Processing and protection of personal data",
  "text": "1. The relevant authority may collect personal data, in relation to the constituent nation, for the purposes of checking, controlling, monitoring, evaluating and auditing direct payments or for the purpose of complying with requirements laid down in international agreements. They shall not process this data in a way that is incompatible with those purposes.\n2. Where personal data are processed for monitoring and evaluation purposes as referred to in paragraph 1, they shall be made anonymous and processed in aggregated form only.\n3. Personal data shall be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018. In particular, such data shall not be stored in a form which permits identification of data subjects for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or for which they are further processed, taking into account any statutory minimum retention periods.\n4. The relevant authority shall inform the data subjects that their personal data may be processed by UK bodies and bodies in the constituent nation in accordance with paragraph 1, and that in this respect they enjoy the rights set out in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018, respectively.\n5. This Article shall be subject to Articles 111 to 114 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulation revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Delinked Payments and Consequential Provisions) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1430), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 1 Table 1 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 68(1) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 7(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 68(2) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 7(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 68(3) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 7(1)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 68(3) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 7(1)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 68(4) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 7(1)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 68(4) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 7(1)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 68(4) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 7(1)(d)(iii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1307/article/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:07.272502+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."
}