The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) published a press release on 14 March 2019, updating its policy on calculating administrative fines. These guidelines are intended for the organisations to become aware of the updated structure of penalties.<\/p>\n
The GDPR empowers each member state of the EU to impose administrative fines, the amount of which depends on every single case. Being a member state, The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has the power to issue administrative fines for the violations of GPDR provisions. Although the penalties described in GDPR are two-tiered, the AP divided the infringements into four categories. Each category has an upper and a lower limit, and a basic fine. The basic fine in each category will be 50% of the sum of the upper and lower limit. It is an average of the minimum and maximum fine in that category.<\/p>\n The maximum amount for the most severe violation of the GDPR is \u20ac1,000,000. However, this is not the final word. If this maximum amount of fine is inadequate in a particular scenario, the penalties can go even higher. If the infringements are repeating, the policy states that the Dutch DPA will increase the fines by 50%. However, the resulting amount will not exceed the threshold of \u20ac20,000,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GDPR | Seers Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-megamenufull","category-uncategorized","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nArticle 83 of the GDPR<\/strong><\/a> sets out the details for imposing fines on non-compliant<\/a> organisations. The maximum limit is 20 million euros or 4% of annual global turnover. This big sum of money can pretty much wipe out the entire profits of a company hence eliminating the chances of regulatory arbitrage.
\nThe Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP), preparing to enforce the new rules, updated its penalties structure and published a press release on 14 March 2019. The newly updated policy provides insights on how the (AP) will use its administrative power.<\/p>\nOVERVIEW OF THE NEW GUIDELINES<\/h3>\n
The AP will take into account the following factors while deciding the amount of fine:<\/h4>\n
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