# Safeguards and derogations relating to processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes — GDPR — context bundle > Focused context for a single provision, curated from overview.legal on 2026-08-22. Canonical page: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-89 > Every item cites its source. Verify against the official text (EUR-Lex / wetten.overheid.nl) before relying on it. ## Provision ### Safeguards and derogations relating to processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes — Safeguards and derogations relating to processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes *GDPR, gdpr-art-89-en — https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-89* 1. Processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes, shall be subject to appropriate safeguards, in accordance with this Regulation, for the rights and freedoms of the data subject. Those safeguards shall ensure that technical and organisational measures are in place in particular in order to ensure respect for the principle of data minimisation. Those measures may include pseudonymisation provided that those purposes can be fulfilled in that manner. Where those purposes can be fulfilled by further processing which does not permit or no longer permits the identification of data subjects, those purposes shall be fulfilled in that manner. 2. Where personal data are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes, Union or Member State law may provide for derogations from the rights referred to in Articles 15, 16, 18 and 21 subject to the conditions and safeguards referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article in so far as such rights are likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the specific purposes, and such derogations are necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes. 3. Where personal data are processed for archiving purposes in the public interest, Union or Member State law may provide for derogations from the rights referred to in Articles 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 21 subject to the conditions and safeguards referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article in so far as such rights are likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the specific purposes, and such derogations are necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes. 4. Where processing referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 serves at the same time another purpose, the derogations shall apply only to processing for the purposes referred to in those paragraphs. ## Guidance ### Coordinated Enforcement Action, *EDPB — https://overview.legal/posts/53740* EDPB, Coordinated Enforcement Action, implementation of the right to erasure by controllers ### Report on stakeholder event on anonymisation and pseudonymisation of 12 December 2025 *EDPB — https://overview.legal/posts/125688* Report on stakeholder event on anonymisation and pseudonymisation of 12 December 2025 1. Background The EDPB organise d a remote stakeholder event on 12 December 2025 to collect stakeholders’ input on anonymisation and pseudonymisation , following the Court of Justice of the European Union ( “ CJEU ” ) judgment in case EDPS v SRB 1 . The objective was to engage with stakeholders to inform the EDPB’s ongoing work on its guidelines 01/2025 on pseudonymisation and f orthcoming guidelines on… ### EDPB Work Programme 2026-2027 *EDPB — https://overview.legal/posts/125689* EDPB Work Programme 2026–2027 Adopted on 11 February 2026 EDPB Work Programme 2026-2027 2 The European Data Protection Board The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is an independent European body established by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The EDPB has the following main tasks: • Issuing opinions, guidelines, recommendations and best practices to promote a common understanding of the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive (LED); • Advising the European Commission on any… ### Versiegeschiedenis *EDPB — https://overview.legal/posts/38105* Het Europees Comité voor gegevensbescherming (EDPB) heeft in deze richtsnoeren (versie 2.0, vastgesteld op 8 oktober 2019) uiteengezet hoe artikel 6, lid 1, onder b) van de AVG moet worden toegepast bij de verwerking van persoonsgegevens in het kader van de verlening van onlinediensten aan betrokkenen. Het document analyseert de reikwijdte en de noodzakelijkheidseis van deze rechtsgrondslag, inclusief de wisselwerking met andere verwerkingsgrondslagen, en verduidelijkt de toepasselijkheid in specifieke situaties zoals dienstverbetering, fraudebestrijding, gedragsgerichte advertenties en contentpersonalisatie. ### Opinion 15/2025 on the draft decision of the Austrian Supervisory Authority (AT SA) regarding the certification criteria of BDO Consulting GmbH *EDPB — https://overview.legal/posts/51079* Adopted 1 Opinion 15/2025 on the draft decision of the Austrian Supervisory Authority ( AT SA) regarding the certificat ion criteria of BDO Consulting GmbH Adopted on 8 July 2025 Adopted 2 Adopted 3 The European Data Protection Board Having regard to Article 63, Article 64(1)(c) and Article 42 of the Regulation 2016/679/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of… ## Related topics - **Statistics** — https://overview.legal/topics/statistics ## Legal Framework --- Generated by overview.legal · https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-89 · 2026-08-22