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CHAPTER VII U.K. Data protection

Article 51U.K.Supervision by the supervisory authorities

1.Each Member State shall ensure that the supervisory authorities independently monitor the lawfulness of the processing of personal data under this Regulation by the Member State concerned, including their transmission to and from the interoperability components.

2.Each Member State shall ensure that the national laws, regulations and administrative provisions adopted pursuant to Directive (EU) 2016/680 are also applicable, where relevant, to access to the interoperability components by police authorities and designated authorities, including in relation to the rights of the persons whose data are so accessed.

3.The supervisory authorities shall ensure that an audit of the personal data processing operations by the responsible national authorities for the purposes of this Regulation is carried out in accordance with relevant international auditing standards at least every four years.

The supervisory authorities shall publish annually the number of requests for rectification, erasure or restriction of processing of personal data, the action subsequently taken and the number of rectifications, erasures and restrictions of processing made in response to requests by the persons concerned.

4.Member States shall ensure that their supervisory authorities have sufficient resources and expertise to fulfil the tasks entrusted to them under this Regulation.

5.Member States shall supply any information requested by a supervisory authority referred to in Article 51(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and shall, in particular, provide it with information on the activities carried out in accordance with their responsibilities under this Regulation. Member States shall grant the supervisory authorities referred to in Article 51(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 access to their logs referred to in Articles 10, 16, 24 and 36 of this Regulation, to the justifications referred to in Article 22(2) of this Regulation and allow them to access all their premises used for interoperability purposes at all times.