# Lawfulness of processing 6(e) — GDPR — provision context

> Focused context for a single provision (6(e)), curated from overview.legal on 2026-08-22. Canonical: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-6#par-1-pnt-e
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Part of **Lawfulness of processing** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-6).

## Provision text

### 6(e)

processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;


## Topics on this provision

- **Controllers** — https://overview.legal/topics/controllers
  Entities that determine purposes and means of processing

## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 March 2024.#Endemol Shine Finland Oy.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Itä-Suomen hovioikeus.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 2, 4, 6, 10 and 86 – Data held by a court relating to the criminal convictions of a natural person – Oral disclosure of such data to a commercial company on account of a competition organised by that company – Concept of ‘processing of personal data’** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132269
- **Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 2 March 2023.#Norra Stockholm Bygg AB v Per Nycander AB.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Högsta domstolen.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 6(3) and (4) – Lawfulness of processing – Production of a document containing personal data in civil court proceedings – Article 23(1)(f) and (j) – Protection of judicial independence and judicial proceedings – Enforcement of civil law clai** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132293
- **Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 28 November 2024.#Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság v UC.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Kúria.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Data processed when drawing up a COVID-19 certificate – Data not collected from the data subject – Information to be provided – Exception to the obligation t** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132158
- **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
- **VG Düsseldorf - 29 K 3490/24** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/108992
- **Peter Nowak v Data Protection Commissioner** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/51480
- **BGH: Court must grant unredacted file access in compulsory auctions under Art. 6(1)(e)** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/53110
- **Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 3 April 2025.#L. H. v Ministerstvo zdravotnictví.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4 – Definitions – Article 6 – Lawfulness of processing – Article 86 – Public access to official documents – Data concerning the representative of a legal person – Case-law of a national court imposing an obligation to inform and consult the data subject prio** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132145
- **CJEU - C‑474/24 - NADA Austria and Others** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/108989
- **RvS - 202203653/1/A3** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/125586
- **Supreme Court upholds €300,000 fine against INPS for GDPR violations in COVID bonus data** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/53097
- **Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 20 October 2022.#Komisia za zashtita na lichnite danni and Tsentralna izbiratelna komisia v Koalitsia „Demokratichna Bulgaria - Obedinenie“.#Request for a preliminary ruling from the Varhoven administrativen sad.#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Scope – Article 2(2)(a) – Concept of ‘activity which falls outside the scope of Union law’ – National and European elections – Article 6(1)(e) – Lawful** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132307

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