Useful links
Official EU resources relevant to the interpretation, application and enforcement of the GDPR
Official European Union sources specific to the GDPR that a practitioner is likely to need day to day, grouped by type and ordered by likely usefulness. All links were checked on 19 September 2026.
1. The legislation
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), consolidated text incorporating the corrigendum of 23 May 2018 eur-lex.europa.eu
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), Official Journal text as adopted eur-lex.europa.eu
- Corrigendum to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (OJ L 127, 23.5.2018) data.europa.eu
- Regulation (EU) 2025/2518 laying down additional procedural rules on the enforcement of the GDPR (applies from 2 April 2027) eur-lex.europa.eu
2. EU-level guidance
- EDPB guidelines, recommendations and best practices edpb.europa.eu
- Legal framework of EU data protection (European Commission) commission.europa.eu
- Data protection rules for business and organisations (European Commission) commission.europa.eu
- Adequacy decisions (Article 45) (European Commission) commission.europa.eu
- Standard contractual clauses (Article 46(2)(c)) (European Commission) commission.europa.eu
- Binding corporate rules (Article 47) (EDPB) edpb.europa.eu
3. Regulators, authorities and bodies
- European Data Protection Board (Article 68) edpb.europa.eu
- National supervisory authorities: EDPB members (Article 51) edpb.europa.eu
- Register of final one-stop-shop decisions (Article 60) (EDPB) edpb.europa.eu
- European Data Protection Supervisor edps.europa.eu
- Commission expert group on the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive (Commission register of expert groups) ec.europa.eu