Chapter 1 - Legal basis for processing personal data
Sub-chapter 1 - Processing of special categories of personal data and processing for other purposes
Section 22 - Processing of special categories of personal dataSection 23 - Processing for other purposes by public bodiesSection 24 - Processing for other purposes by private bodiesSection 25 - Transfer of data by public bodies
Sub-chapter 2 - Special processing situations
Section 26 - Data processing for employment-related purposesSection 27 - Data processing for purposes of scientific or historical research and for statistical purposesSection 28 - Data processing for archiving purposes in the public interestSection 29 - Rights of the data subject and powers of the supervisory authorities in the case of secrecy obligationsSection 30 - Consumer loansSection 31 - Protection of commercial transactions in the case of scoring and credit reports
Chapter 2 - Rights of the data subject
Section 32 - Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subjectSection 33 - Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subjectSection 34 - Right of access by the data subjectSection 35 - Right to erasureSection 36 - Right to objectSection 37 - Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
Chapter 3 - Obligations of controllers and processors
Section 38 - Data protection officers of private bodiesSection 39 - Accreditation
Chapter 4 - Supervisory authorities for data processing by private bodies
Section 40 - Supervisory authorities of the Länder
Chapter 5 - Penalties
Section 41 - Application of provisions concerning criminal proceedings and proceedings to impose administrative finesSection 42 - Penal provisionsSection 43 - Provisions on administrative fines
Chapter 6 - Legal remedies
Section 44 - Proceedings against a controller or processor

Chapter 1 - Scope, definitions and general principles for processing personal data
Section 45 - ScopeSection 46 - DefinitionsSection 47 - General principles for processing personal data
Chapter 2 - Legal basis for processing personal data
Section 48 - Processing of special categories of personal dataSection 49 - Processing for other purposesSection 50 - Processing for archiving, scientific and statistical purposesSection 51 - ConsentSection 52 - Processing on instructions from the controllerSection 53 - ConfidentialitySection 54 - Automated individual decision
Chapter 3 - Rights of the data subject
Section 55 - General information on data processingSection 56 - Notification of data subjectsSection 57 - Right of accessSection 58 - Right to rectification and erasure and to restriction of processingSection 59 - Modalities for exercising the rights of the data subjectSection 60 - Right to lodge a complaint with the Federal CommissionerSection 61 - Legal remedies against decisions of the Federal Commissioner or if he or she fails to take action
Chapter 4 - Obligations of controllers and processors
Section 62 - Processing carried out on behalf of a controllerSection 63 - Joint controllersSection 64 - Requirements for the security of data processingSection 65 - Notifying the Federal Commissioner of a personal data breachSection 66 - Notifying data subjects affected by a personal data breachSection 67 - Conducting a data protection impact assessmentSection 68 - Cooperation with the Federal CommissionerSection 69 - Prior consultation of the Federal CommissionerSection 70 - Records of processing activitiesSection 71 - Data protection by design and by defaultSection 72 - Distinction between different categories of data subjectsSection 73 - Distinction between facts and personal assessmentsSection 74 - Procedures for data transfersSection 75 - Rectification and erasure of personal data and restriction of processingSection 76 - LoggingSection 77 - Confidential reporting of violations
Chapter 5 - Transfers of data to third countries and to international organisations
Section 78 - General requirementsSection 79 - Data transfers with appropriate safeguardsSection 80 - Data transfers without appropriate safeguardsSection 81 - Other data transfers to recipients in third countries
Chapter 6 - Cooperation among supervisory authorities
Section 82 - Mutual assistance
Chapter 7 - Liability and penalties
Section 83 - CompensationSection 84 - Penal provisions

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Section 4
(1) Monitoring publicly accessible areas with optical-electronic devices (video surveillance) shall be permitted only as far as it is necessary
Section 13
(6) Subsections 3 and 4, fifth to seventh sentences, shall apply accordingly to the public bodies responsible for monitoring compliance with the data protection provisions in the Länder.
Section 16
(5) The Federal Commissioner shall work to cooperate with the public bodies responsible for monitoring compliance with data protection provisions in the Länder and with the supervisory authorities under Section 40. Section 40 (3), first sentence, second half sentence, shall apply accordingly.
Section 23
6. processing is necessary to exercise powers of supervision and monitoring, to conduct audits or organisational analyses of the controller; this shall also apply to processing for training and examination purposes by the controller, as long as it does not conflict with the legitimate interests of the data subject.
Section 34
b) only serve purposes of monitoring data protection or safeguarding data, and providing information would require a disproportionate effort, and appropriate technical and organisational measures make processing for other purposes impossible.
Section 34
(2) The reasons for the refusal to provide information shall be documented. The data subject shall be informed of the reasons for refusing to provide information, unless providing the reasons in law and in fact on which the decision is based would undermine the intended purpose of refusing to provide the information. Data stored for the purpose of providing information to the data subject and preparing such provision may be processed only for this purpose and for purposes of data protection monitoring; processing for other purposes shall be restricted according to Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
Section 40
(4) The bodies subject to monitoring and the persons responsible for their management shall provide a supervisory authority on request with the information necessary to perform their tasks. The person required to provide information may refuse to answer those questions which would expose himor herself or a relative as referred to in Section 383 (1) nos. 1 to 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure to the risk of criminal prosecution or proceedings under the Administrative Offences Act. The person required to provide information shall be informed accordingly.
Section 48
1. specific requirements for data security or data protection monitoring;
Section 57
(2) Subsection 1 shall not apply to personal data recorded only because they may not be erased due to legal or statutory provisions on retention, or only for purposes of monitoring data protection or safeguarding data, if providing information would require a disproportionate effort, and appropriate technical and organisational measures make processing for other purposes impossible.
Section 76
(3) The logs may be used only by the data protection officer, the Federal Commissioner or the data subject to verify the lawfulness of the processing; and for selfmonitoring, ensuring the integrity and security of the personal data, and for criminal proceedings.