# Powers 58(a) — GDPR — provision context

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Part of **Powers** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-58).

## Provision text

### 58(a)

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;


## Topics on this provision

- **Representatives** — https://overview.legal/topics/representatives
  Representatives of controllers not established in the EU
- **Processors** — https://overview.legal/topics/processors
  Entities that process data on behalf of controllers
- **Controllers** — https://overview.legal/topics/controllers
  Entities that determine purposes and means of processing

## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 June 2023.#Proceedings brought by J.M.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Itä-Suomen hallinto-oikeus.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 4 and 15 – Scope of the right of access to information referred to in Article 15 – Information contained in log data – Article 4 – Definition of ‘personal data’ – Definition of ‘recipients’ – Temporal application.#Case C-579/21.** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132284
- **Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 June 2023.#Proceedings brought by J.M.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Itä-Suomen hallinto-oikeus.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 4 and 15 – Scope of the right of access to information referred to in Article 15 – Information contained in log data – Article 4 – Definition of ‘personal data’ – Definition of ‘recipients’ – Temporal application.#Case C-579/21.** ¶82 (case-law, Court of Justice of the European Union) — https://overview.legal/posts/132284
- **Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 30 April 2025.#Inspektorat kam Visshia sadeben savet.#Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Sofiyski rayonen sad.#References for a preliminary ruling – Rule of law – Judicial independence – Second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU – Effective legal protection in the fields covered by Union law – Judicial body competent to propose the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against judges, public prosecutors and investigating magistrates, with a view t** ¶35 (case-law, Court of Justice of the European Union) — https://overview.legal/posts/132143
- **Opinion 04/2024 on the notion of main establishment of a controller in the Union under Art. 4.16(a) GDPR** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125773
- **EDPB Annual Report 2021** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125941

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