# General conditions for imposing administrative fines 83(a) — GDPR — provision context

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Part of **General conditions for imposing administrative fines** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-83).

## Provision text

### 83(a)

the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement taking into account the nature scope or purpose of the processing concerned as well as the number of data subjects affected and the level of damage suffered by them;


## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **Guidelines 04/2022 on the calculation of administrative fines under the GDPR** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/38068
- **Statement 2/2024 on the financial data access and payments package** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125748
- **If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? Ten improvements for the upcoming tenth anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation** (literature) — https://overview.legal/posts/53843

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