The Czech Republic has approved legislation that incorporates the provisions of the GDPR. Key derogations of the Data Processing Act from the GDPR include: a child can validly consent to personal data processing for specific purposes if he or she is at least 15 years of age; data controllers have been allowed certain privileges concerning personal data processing for journalistic, academic, artistic and/or literary purposes; the Czech Republic has also opted to fully exempt its public authorities and public bodies from administrative penalties; and the Data Processing Act only tackles issues that have been left to the Member States or which fall out of the scope of the GDPR.
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