# Right to data portability 20(1) — GDPR — provision context

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Part of **Right to data portability** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-20).

## Provision text

### 20(1)

The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:

a) the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) or point (a) of Article 9(2) or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1); and
b) the processing is carried out by automated means.

## Topics on this provision

- **Data Portability** — https://overview.legal/topics/data-portability
  Right to receive and transfer personal data
- **Data Portability** — https://overview.legal/topics/dataportabiliteit
  Right to receive and transfer personal data in structured, machine-readable format
- **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)

- **CJEU - C-205/21 - Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/158437
- **GC - T-318/24** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/122878
- **Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 26 January 2023.#Criminal proceedings against V.S.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Directive (EU) 2016/680 – Article 4(1)(a) to (c) – Principles relating to processing of personal data – Purpose limitation – Data minimisation – Article 6(a) – Clear distinction between personal data of different categ** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132297
- **Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 5 October 2020 (Extracts).#Les Mousquetaires and ITM Entreprises v European Commission.#Competition – Agreements, decisions and concerted practices – Administrative procedure – Decisions ordering an inspection – Plea of illegality against Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 – Right to an effective remedy – Obligation to state reasons – Right to inviolability of the home – Sufficiently strong evidence – Proportionality – A** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132330
- **Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 March 2016.#Safe Interenvios, SA v Liberbank, SA and Others.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing — Directive 2005/60/EC — Customer due diligence measures — Directive 2007/64/EC — Payment services in the internal market.#Case C-235/14.** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132356
- **Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 March 2016.#Safe Interenvios, SA v Liberbank, SA and Others.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona.#Reference for a preliminary ruling — Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing — Directive 2005/60/EC — Customer due diligence measures — Directive 2007/64/EC — Payment services in the internal market.#Case C-235/14.** ¶30 (case-law, Court of Justice of the European Union) — https://overview.legal/posts/132356
- **Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 26 January 2023.#Criminal proceedings against V.S.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Directive (EU) 2016/680 – Article 4(1)(a) to (c) – Principles relating to processing of personal data – Purpose limitation – Data minimisation – Article 6(a) – Clear distinction between personal data of different categ** ¶26 (case-law, Court of Justice of the European Union) — https://overview.legal/posts/132297
- **CJEU - C-205/21 - Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti** ¶26 (case-law, GDPRhub) — https://overview.legal/posts/158437
- **Opinion 07/2025 regarding the European Commission Draft Implementing Decision pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the adequate protection of personal data by the European Patent Organisation** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/50823
- **EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 01/2023 on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of Regulation (EU) 2016/679** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125829

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