# Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject 13(1) — GDPR — provision context

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Part of **Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-13).

## Provision text

### 13(1)

Where personal data relating to a data subject are collected from the data subject, the controller shall, at the time when personal data are obtained, provide the data subject with all of the following information:

a) the identity and the contact details of the controller and, where applicable, of the controller's representative;
b) the contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable;
c) the purposes of the processing for which the personal data are intended as well as the legal basis for the processing;
d) where the processing is based on point (f) of Article 6(1), the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party;
e) the recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data, if any;
f) where applicable, the fact that the controller intends to transfer personal data to a third country or international organisation and the existence or absence of an adequacy decision by the Commission, or in the case of transfers referred to in Article 46 or 47, or the second subparagraph of Article 49(1), reference to the appropriate or suitable safeguards and the means by which to obtain a copy of them or where they have been made available.

## Topics on this provision

- **Personal Data** — https://overview.legal/topics/persoonsgegevens
  Information relating to identified or identifiable natural persons
- **Controllers** — https://overview.legal/topics/controllers
  Entities that determine purposes and means of processing

## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 4 October 2024.#C.G. v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Tirol.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences – Directive (EU) 2016/680 – Article 3(2) – Concept of ‘processing’ – Article 4 – Principles re** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132164
- **Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 October 2024.#Agentsia po vpisvaniyata v OL.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Varhoven administrativen sad.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Publication in the commercial register of a company’s constitutive instrument containing personal data – Directive (EU) 2017/1132 – Non-compulsory personal data – Lack of consent of the data subjec** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132161
- **CJEU - C-141/12 and C-372/12 - YS and Others (Joined Cases)** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/125640
- **Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 13 November 2025.#Inteligo Media SA v Autoritatea Naţională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP).#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Bucureşti.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector – Directive 2002/58/EC – Article 13(1) and (2) – Unsolicited communications – Concept of communication ‘for the purposes of di** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132132
- **Patrick Breyer v Bundesrepublik Deutschland** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/51479
- **Digital Rights Ireland Ltd v Minister for Communications** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/51474
- **RYNES V. ÚŘAD PRO OCHRANU OSOBNICH ÚDAJŮ, 11.12.2014 (“RYNES”)** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/6155
- **Privacy International v Secretary of State** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/51481
- **Peter Nowak v Data Protection Commissioner** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/51480
- **French Supreme Admin Court partly upholds challenge to graduated response IP data decree** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/122869
- **Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen v Planet49 GmbH** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/51473
- **Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 12 September 2024.#HTB Neunte Immobilien Portfolio geschlossene Investment UG & Co. KG and Ökorenta Neue Energien Ökostabil IV geschlossene Investment GmbH & Co. KG v Müller Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH and Others.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht München.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Points (b), (c) and (f) of the firs** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132246

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