# Territorial scope 3(a) — GDPR — provision context

> Focused context for a single provision (3(a)), curated from overview.legal on 2026-08-22. Canonical: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-3#par-2-pnt-a
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Part of **Territorial scope** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-3).

## Provision text

### 3(a)

the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or


## Topics on this provision

- **Personal Data** — https://overview.legal/topics/persoonsgegevens
  Information relating to identified or identifiable natural persons
- **Territorial scope (GDPR)** — https://overview.legal/topics/territorial-scope
  When the GDPR applies geographically: establishment in the Union, targeting (offering goods or services), and behavioural monitoring by non-EU controllers (Arti

## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **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.** ¶11 (case-law, Court of Justice of the European Union) — https://overview.legal/posts/132356
- **Guidelines 3/2018 on the territorial scope of the GDPR (Article 3)** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/38074
- **Guidelines 05/2021 on the Interplay between the application of Article 3 and the provisions on international transfers as per Chapter V of the GDPR** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125866
- **EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 04/2022 on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125917
- **EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 2/2022 on the Proposal of the European Parliament and of the Council on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125945

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