Supervisory authority
Each Member State shall provide that one or more independent public authorities shall be responsible for monitoring the application of this Regulation in order to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons with regard to the processing of their personal data and to facilitate the free flow of personal data within the Union ("Supervisory Authority").
Each supervisory authority shall contribute to the consistent application of this Regulation throughout the Union. To this end, the supervisory authorities shall cooperate among themselves and with the Commission in accordance with Chapter VII.
Where more than one supervisory authority is established in a Member State, that Member State shall designate the supervisory authority to represent those authorities in the Committee and shall establish the procedure to ensure that the other authorities comply with the rules relating to the consistency mechanism referred to in Article 63.
Each Member State shall notify the Commission by May 25, 2018, of the legal provisions it adopts pursuant to this chapter and, without delay, of any subsequent amendments thereto.
