Source: OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, pp. 1–88 · Consolidated text

Article 87 Traitement du numéro d'identification national

Summary What does Article 87 of the GDPR regulation say?

This brief article grants Member States the discretion to set their own specific conditions around the processing of national identification numbers or similar general-purpose identifiers.

It sits within the broader GDPR framework as a national flexibility provision, allowing Member States to go beyond the baseline rules of the Regulation when it comes to this particular category of data, provided they maintain the safeguards the Regulation already requires for data subjects' rights and freedoms.

Important points:

Member States may establish specific conditions governing the processing of national identification numbers or equivalent general-purpose identifiers.
Any such identifier must be used only under appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of the data subject.
This is a discretionary power for Member States, not a mandatory obligation.

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Les États membres peuvent préciser les conditions spécifiques du traitement d'un numéro d'identification national ou de tout autre identifiant d'application générale. Dans ce cas, le numéro d'identification national ou tout autre identifiant d'application générale n'est utilisé que sous réserve des garanties appropriées pour les droits et libertés de la personne concernée adoptées en vertu du présent règlement.

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