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title: "GDPR Article 90: Obligations of secrecy"
url: "https://www.engagecompliance.co/law/gdpr/article-90"
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# GDPR Article 90: Obligations of secrecy

_CHAPTER IX_

1. Member States may adopt specific rules to set out the powers of the supervisory authorities laid down in points (e) and (f) of Article 58(1) in relation to controllers or processors that are subject, under Union or Member State law or rules established by national competent bodies, to an obligation of professional secrecy or other equivalent obligations of secrecy where this is necessary and proportionate to reconcile the right of the protection of personal data with the obligation of secrecy. Those rules shall apply only with regard to personal data which the controller or processor has received as a result of or has obtained in an activity covered by that obligation of secrecy.

2. Each Member State shall notify to the Commission the rules adopted pursuant to paragraph 1, by 25 May 2018 and, without delay, any subsequent amendment affecting them.

## Relevant recitals

- [Recital 164](https://www.engagecompliance.co/law/gdpr/recital-164): Professional or Other Equivalent Secrecy Obligations

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