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third party
Defined in 5 EU acts of the Digital group: GDPR First Data Protection Directive Own wording Repealed EUDPR Same wording Open Data Directive Own wording EHDS Reference
GDPR, Article 4(10) First adopted 2016-04-27
a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal dataData Protection Directive, Article 2(f) Own wording Repealed adopted 1995-10-24
a any natural or legal person, public authority, agency or any other body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or the processor, are authorised authorized to process personal the data
Compared with GDPR: struck words are only in GDPR, marked words only here.
EUDPR, Article 3(14) Same wording adopted 2018-10-23
Same wording as GDPR.
a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal dataOpen Data Directive, Article 2(17) Own wording adopted 2019-06-20
a any natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than a public sector body or a public undertaking that holds the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data
Compared with GDPR: struck words are only in GDPR, marked words only here.
EHDS, Article 2(1)(a) Reference adopted 2025-02-11
Refers to GDPR, Article 4(10).
laid down in Article 4, points (1), (2), (5), (7), (8), (10), (11), (13), (15) and (26), respectively, of Regulation (EU) 2016/679