Article 41 GDPR

Legal Text: Commentary ==Commentary====Commentary== Article 41 GDPR complements [[Article 40 GDPR]] by providing that compliance with any approved code of conduct must be monitored by an accredited body with the appropriate level of expertise in the sector covered by the code. Although the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (DPD) included a provision on codes of conduct (Article 27(1) DPD), this did not include any information on how compliance with such codes should be monitored. Accordingly, it was left to national law to determine whether this monitoring should take place, and which specific body may undertake this task.<ref>''Kamara'', in Kuner, Bygrave, Docksey, The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A Commentary, Article 41 GDPR, p. 727 (Oxford University Press 2020).</ref> According to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) Guidelines 1/2019 on Codes of Conduct and Monitoring Bodies under Regulation 2016/679 (EDPB Guidelines), the ai