# Derogations for specific situations 49(b) — GDPR — provision context

> Focused context for a single provision (49(b)), curated from overview.legal on 2026-08-22. Canonical: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-49#par-1-pnt-b
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Part of **Derogations for specific situations** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-49).

## Provision text

### 49(b)

the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller or the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at the data subject's request;


## 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)

- **Is the DPC actually stopping Facebook's EU-US data transfers?! ..maybe half-way!** (news) — https://overview.legal/posts/53348

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