Recital 117 Establishment of Supervisory Authorities*

1The establishment of supervisory authorities in Member States, empowered to perform their tasks and exercise their powers with complete independence, is an essential component of the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of their personal data. 2Member States should be able to establish more than one supervisory authority, to reflect their constitutional, organisational and administrative structure.

* This title is an unofficial description.

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