{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-493/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2020/493",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2020/493 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 March 2020 on the False and Authentic Documents Online (FADO) system and repealing Council Joint Action 98/700/JHA",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-493",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Processing of personal data by the Agency",
  "text": "1. The Agency shall apply Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council when processing personal data under this Regulation. The Agency shall only process personal data where such processing is necessary for the performance of its task of operating the FADO system.\nAs regards authentic documents, the FADO system shall only contain personal data included in the specimens of such documents or pseudonymised data.\nAs regards false documents, the FADO system shall only contain personal data to the extent they are necessary to describe or illustrate the fraud characteristics or the method of falsification of such documents.\n2. The Agency shall ensure that technical and organisational measures, such as pseudonymisation, are in place in order to ensure that personal data are only processed to the extent strictly necessary for the purpose of operating the FADO system in line with the principle of data minimisation in a way which does not permit the identification of any natural person through the FADO system without using additional data.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/493/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:43.725772+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."
}