<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">All - Maybe helpful for your EPDP discussion’s. Keep in mind this document is released by the Belgian national DPA and not the European cross national board of DPAs. Nonetheless I assume that they will have discussed this with their colleagues but I had no chance (yet) to check this.</div><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr">Erika <br><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><h4 style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=6685664&l=88SJB9G" style="line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Belgium's privacy watchdog publishes guidance on the notions of controller and processor</a></h4></div><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CMS Belgium</span><a target="_blank" class="logclick ct_logo" href="http://www.cms-db.com/" style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; height: 72px; position: relative; -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d; transform-style: preserve-3d; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline !important; outline: 0px !important;"><font color="#000000"><img alt="CMS Belgium logo" src="https://d2dzik4ii1e1u6.cloudfront.net/images/lexology/firm/new/14b37190-7685-41b2-bb3a-88070ed497a9/W350/20150313110547.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-height: 72px; max-width: 200px; padding: 10px; position: relative; top: 35px; transform: translateY(-50%);"></font></a></div><div class="gated-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><div id="article-attributes" class="article-attributes" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; float: left; width: 345px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="article-jurisdictions" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 3px; padding-right: 5px; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><a href="https://www.lexology.com/hub/belgium" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important;">Belgium</a> </span><span class="publication" style="box-sizing: border-box;">January 17 2019</span></span></div><div class="article-body clippable-element text-clippable image-clippable" id="lex-article-body" data-integrity-check="E4A171C42D3BB50923D38A067E0425B5" data-content-slug="288f6355-21ac-40d8-99c3-64102b85c3e9" data-friendly-name="Belgium's privacy watchdog publishes guidance on the notions of controller and processor" data-firm-ref="144" data-content-type="Article" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Recently, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (“<a class="logclick ct_cont" target="_blank" href="https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(223, 223, 223); outline: 0px !important;">DPA</a>”) published guidance on controller and processor concepts (see original documents in <a class="logclick ct_cont" target="_blank" href="https://www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be/sites/privacycommission/files/documents/Notions_RT_ST.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(223, 223, 223); outline: 0px !important;">French</a> and in <a class="logclick ct_cont" target="_blank" href="https://www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be/sites/privacycommission/files/documents/Begrippen_VW_OA.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(223, 223, 223); outline: 0px !important;">Dutch</a>), refreshing the distinction between these two concepts and their implications.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In view of recent questions about the qualification and concrete application of the concepts of controller and processor, the DPA has decided to recap the principles and definitions applicable to these concepts.</span></p></div></div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div></body></html>