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title: "GDPR Recital 145: Choice of Venue"
url: "https://www.engagecompliance.co/law/gdpr/recital-145"
type: "legal-text"
date: ""
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# GDPR Recital 145: Choice of Venue

For proceedings against a controller or processor, the plaintiff should have the choice to bring the action before the courts of the Member States where the controller or processor has an establishment or where the data subject resides, unless the controller is a public authority of a Member State acting in the exercise of its public powers.

## Articles this recital explains

- [Article 79](https://www.engagecompliance.co/law/gdpr/article-79): Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor

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