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- Role, functions, and powers of additional or ancillary data regulation authorities (if applicable). As of today, there are three regional data regulation authorities: the Catalan Data Protection Authority, the Basque Data Protection Agency, and the Council for Transparency and Data Protection of Andalusia. The latter was created in 2014, with the special feature that in this region (“Comunidad Autónoma”), the competent entity in data protection matters is also competent in transparency matters. Each one of them has particular functions for their own regions,
in the data processing. Nevertheless, the AEPD continues to serve as the overseeing authority across the entire territory, encompassing the three aforementioned regions with which it collaborates and enforces mechanisms for coherence. 8.3. Role, functions, and powers of civil/criminal courts in the field of data regulation The contentious-Administrative Sections of the Central Court of First Instance (“Secciones de lo Contencioso-Administrativo del Tribunal Central de Instancia”) are responsible for authorizing, by means of an order, the requests for information issued by the AEPD and other independent administrative authorities at the state level to operators providing publicly available electronic communications services and providers of information society services, when this is necessary in accordance with the Spanish DP Law. Moreover, the Contentious- Administrative Section of the Supreme Court will decide on the request for authorization for the declaration provided for in the Fifth Additional Provision of the Spanish DP Law, when such a request is made by the General Council of the Judiciary (“Consejo General del Poder Judicial”).
which mainly involves monitoring the application of the data protection regulation in their territory and specially when entities of the public sector of those regions are involved
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