# Right to compensation and liability 82(4) — GDPR — provision context

> Focused context for a single provision (82(4)), curated from overview.legal on 2026-07-23. Canonical: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-82#par-4
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Part of **Right to compensation and liability** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-82).

## Provision text

### 82(4)

Where more than one controller or processor, or both a controller and a processor, are involved in the same processing and where they are, under paragraphs 2 and 3, responsible for any damage caused by processing, each controller or processor shall be held liable for the entire damage in order to ensure effective compensation of the data subject.


## 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
- **Processors** — https://overview.legal/topics/processors
  Entities that process data on behalf of controllers

## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 March 2024.#Marián Kočner v European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol).#Appeal – Law enforcement cooperation – Regulation (EU) 2016/794 – Article 49(3) and Article 50 – Protection of personal data – Unlawful data processing – Criminal proceedings brought in Slovakia against the appellant – Expert’s report drawn up by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) for the purposes of the investigation – Retrieval** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/132271
- **CJEU - C‑755/21 P - Kočner v Europol** (case-law) — https://overview.legal/posts/122879
- **Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 March 2024.#Marián Kočner v European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol).#Appeal – Law enforcement cooperation – Regulation (EU) 2016/794 – Article 49(3) and Article 50 – Protection of personal data – Unlawful data processing – Criminal proceedings brought in Slovakia against the appellant – Expert’s report drawn up by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) for the purposes of the investigation – Retrieval** ¶72 (case-law, Court of Justice of the European Union) — https://overview.legal/posts/132271

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