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title: "GDPR Recital 82: Record of Processing Activities"
url: "https://www.engagecompliance.co/law/gdpr/recital-82"
type: "legal-text"
date: ""
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# GDPR Recital 82: Record of Processing Activities

In order to demonstrate compliance with this Regulation, the controller or processor should maintain records of processing activities under its responsibility. Each controller and processor should be obliged to cooperate with the supervisory authority and make those records, on request, available to it, so that it might serve for monitoring those processing operations.

## Articles this recital explains

- [Article 30](https://www.engagecompliance.co/law/gdpr/article-30): Records of processing activities
- [Article 31](https://www.engagecompliance.co/law/gdpr/article-31): Cooperation with the supervisory authority

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