Special categories of data

The processing of data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, as well as the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation, is prohibited. The processing of these special categories of data is not permitted unless one of the conditions set out in Article 9(2) of the GDPR applies. The processing of special categories of data must also be based on at least one of the conditions for lawfulness of processing set out in Article 6 of the GDPR.

The condition for lawfulness of processing is what legally authorises its implementation and grants the applicant entity or applicant the right to process personal data. For the processing of personal data to be lawful, it must be based on at least one of the six lawfulness conditions set out in Article 6 of the GDPR. An applicant or aaplicant entity must indicate the lawfulness condition on which it wishes to rely when processing personal data in the ETS (e.g. Article 6(1)(e) for public entities).