Article 86 Processing and public access to official documents

United Kingdom

F1(1.)

Personal data in official documents held by a public authority or a public body or a private body for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest may be disclosed by the authority or body in accordance with F2domestic law to which the public authority or body is subject in order to reconcile public access to official documents with F3... the protection of personal data pursuant to this Regulation.

F4(2.)

Chapter 3 of Part 2 of the 2018 Act makes provision about the application of this Regulation to the manual unstructured processing of personal data held by an FOI public authority (as defined in Article 2).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Art. 86 renumbered as Art. 86(1) (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 65(2) (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in Art. 86(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 65(3) (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Words in Art. 86(1) omitted (31.12.2023 immediately before the end of 2023) by virtue of The Data Protection (Fundamental Rights and Freedoms) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1417), regs. 1(2), 2(8)
F4: Art. 86(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 65(4) (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Notes on the whole EU Regulation

Textual amendments

F1: Regulation title amended (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2 (with reg. 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Notes on Chapter IX

Textual amendments

F1: Word in Ch. 9 heading inserted (5.2.2026) by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18), ss. 86(3), 142(1); S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(n)