monitor and enforce the application of this Regulation;

promote public awareness and understanding of the risks, rules, safeguards and rights in relation to processing. Activities addressed specifically to children shall receive specific attention;

advise F12Parliament, the government, and other institutions and bodies on legislative and administrative measures relating to the protection of natural persons' rights and freedoms with regard to processing;

promote the awareness of controllers and processors of their obligations under this Regulation;

upon request, provide information to any data subject concerning the exercise of their rights under this Regulation and, if appropriate, cooperate with F29foreign designated authorities to that end;

handle complaints lodged by a data subject, or by a body, organisation or association in accordance with Article 80, and investigate, to the extent appropriate, the subject matter of the complaint and inform the complainant of the progress and the outcome of the investigation within a reasonable period, in particular if further investigation or coordination with F18a foreign designated authority is necessary;

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conduct investigations on the application of this Regulation, including on the basis of information received from F5a foreign designated authority or other public authority;

monitor relevant developments, insofar as they have an impact on the protection of personal data, in particular the development of information and communication technologies and commercial practices;

adopt standard contractual clauses referred to in Article 28(8) and F7issue standard data protection clauses referred to in point (d) of Article 46(2);

establish and maintain a list in relation to the requirement for data protection impact assessment pursuant to Article 35(4);

give advice on the processing operations referred to in Article 36(2);

encourage the drawing up of codes of conduct pursuant to Article 40(1) and provide an opinion and approve such codes of conduct which provide sufficient safeguards, pursuant to Article 40(5);

encourage the establishment of data protection certification mechanisms and of data protection seals and marks pursuant to Article 42(1), and approve the criteria of certification pursuant to Article 42(5);

where applicable, carry out a periodic review of certifications issued in accordance with Article 42(7);

maintain a public register of certification mechanisms and data protection seals and marks pursuant to Article 42(8) and of controllers or processors established in third countries and certified pursuant to Article 42(7);

draft and publish the requirements for accreditation of a body for monitoring codes of conduct pursuant to Article 41 and of a certification body pursuant to Article 43;

conduct the accreditation of a body for monitoring codes of conduct pursuant to Article 41 and of a certification body pursuant to Article 43;

authorise contractual clauses and provisions referred to in Article 46(3);

approve binding corporate rules pursuant to Article 47;

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keep internal records of infringements of this Regulation and of measures taken in accordance with Article 58(2); and

fulfil any other tasks related to the protection of personal data.

to order the controller and the processor, and, where applicable, the controller's or the processor's representative to provide any information it requires for the performance of its tasks;

to carry out investigations in the form of data protection audits;

to carry out a review on certifications issued pursuant to Article 42(7);

to notify the controller or the processor of an alleged infringement of this Regulation;

to obtain, from the controller and the processor, access to all personal data and to all information necessary for the performance of F22the Commissioner's tasks;

to obtain access to any premises of the controller and the processor, including to any data processing equipment and means, in accordance with F4domestic law.

to issue warnings to a controller or processor that intended processing operations are likely to infringe provisions of this Regulation;

to issue reprimands to a controller or a processor where processing operations have infringed provisions of this Regulation;

to order the controller or the processor to comply with the data subject's requests to exercise his or her rights pursuant to this Regulation;

to order the controller or processor to bring processing operations into compliance with the provisions of this Regulation, where appropriate, in a specified manner and within a specified period;

to order the controller to communicate a personal data breach to the data subject;

to impose a temporary or definitive limitation including a ban on processing;

to order the rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing pursuant to Articles 16, 17 and 18 and the notification of such actions to recipients to whom the personal data have been disclosed pursuant to Article 17(2) and Article 19;

to withdraw a certification or to order the certification body to withdraw a certification issued pursuant to Articles 42 and 43, or to order the certification body not to issue certification if the requirements for the certification are not or are no longer met;

to impose an administrative fine pursuant to Article 83, in addition to, or instead of measures referred to in this paragraph, depending on the circumstances of each individual case;

to order the suspension of data flows to a recipient in a third country or to an international organisation.

to advise the controller in accordance with the prior consultation procedure referred to in Article 36;

to issue, on F25the Commissioner's own initiative or on request, opinions to F11Parliament, the government or other institutions and bodies as well as to the public on any issue related to the protection of personal data;

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to issue an opinion and approve draft codes of conduct pursuant to Article 40(5);

to accredit certification bodies pursuant to Article 43;

to issue certifications and approve criteria of certification in accordance with Article 42(5);

to adopt standard data protection clauses referred to in Article 28(8) and in point (d) of Article 46(2);

to authorise contractual clauses referred to in point (a) of Article 46(3);

to authorise administrative arrangements referred to in point (b) of Article 46(3);

to approve binding corporate rules pursuant to Article 47.