3382 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, including on the basis of information received from another public authority, (i) monitor relevant developments, insofar as they have an impact on the protection of personal data, in particular developments in information and communication technologies and commercial practices, (j) contribute to the activities of the EDPB. 2. In exercising its powers, the Authority shall file without further action any requests, questions or complaints which are manifestly vague, unfounded or understated, or are submitted abusively or anonymously. The Authority shall inform the data subjects and the applicants of its actions. Without prejudice to the time limits set out in the GDPR, the priority for examining requests, questions and complaints shall be assessed by the Authority on the basis of the relevance and general interest of the matter. Article 14 Activity report The Authority shall draw up each year a report on the performance of its tasks during the previous calendar year. The report shall be submitted by the President of the Authority to the President of the Parliament and the Prime Minister, and shall be published in the Government Gazette under the responsibility of the Authority, which may give further publicity to the report. Article 15 Investigative and corrective powers 1. In addition to the powers laid down in Article 58 of the GDPR, the Authority shall conduct, ex officio or following a complaint, investigations and audits relating to the compliance with this Law during which the technological infrastructure and other automated or non-automated means supporting the processing of personal data are subject to controls. In carrying out such investigations and inspections, the Authority shall have the power to obtain, from the controller and the processor, access to all personal data processed and to all information necessary for the purposes of such audits and the performance of its tasks, and no type of confidentiality may be relied upon against it. The Authority shall, by way of exception, not have access to data identifying associates or staff employed in entities contained in records held for national security purposes or for the purpose of investigating particularly serious crimes. 2. The audits shall be carried out by a member or members of the Authority, or employees of the Secretariat's department of scientific staff who are specially authorised to that effect by the President of the Authority. The President and the members of the Authority, as well as the Secretariat’s specially mandated officials shall be deemed as special investigating officers having all the rights provided for in the Code of Criminal Procedure. They shall be entitled to carry out a preliminary investigation, even without an order by the Public Prosecutor, in case of an act caught in flagrante delicto, or a misdemeanor, or if there is a risk as a result of any delay. The public authorities shall assist the Authority in carrying out the audit. 3. The President of the Authority may grant the power A’ 137/29.08.2019 to carry out audits to members and staff of a supervisory authority of another Member State of the European Union (‘seconding supervisory authority’) in the framework of joint operations carried out under Article 62 of the GDPR and Article 79 of this Law. 4. The Authority shall, for the purposes of this Law: (a) issue warnings to a controller or processor that intended processing operations are likely to infringe provisions of this Law; (b) order the controller or processor to comply with the provisions of this Law in a specified manner and within a specified period, in particular by ordering the rectification or erasure of personal data; (c) order and impose a temporary or definitive limitation, or even a ban on the processing of personal data; (d) order and impose that documents, filing systems, equipment or means for processing personal data be delivered to it, as well as their content in the case provided for in subparagraph (c) of this paragraph; (e) seize documents, information, filing systems for each piece of equipment and means of personal data breach, and their content which becomes known to the Authority in the exercise of its supervisory powers. The Authority shall be the sequestrator of the above material until a decision has been reached by the competent judicial and prosecutorial authorities. 5. In addition to the corrective powers provided for in Article 58(2) of the GDPR, the Authority shall order the controller or processor, or a recipient, or a third party, to discontinue the processing of personal data or to return or lock (block) the relevant data or to destroy the filing system or the relevant data. 6. The Authority shall impose the administrative penalties provided for in Article 83 of the GDPR and Article 39 hereof. 7. The Authority shall impose the administrative penalties provided for in Article 82. 8. Where the protection of the individual against the processing of personal data concerning him or her requires immediate decision-making, the President may, at the request of the person concerned or ex officio, issue a temporary order for immediate temporary limitation, in whole or in part, of the processing or the operation of the file. The order shall apply until the Authority reaches its final decision. 9. In order to ensure compliance with the provisions of the GDPR, this Law and other regulations relating to the protection of the data subject with regard to the processing of personal data, the Authority, without prejudice to Chapter VII of the GDPR, shall adopt administrative regulatory acts to regulate specific, technical and detailed matters referred to in those acts. 10. The regulatory acts of the Authority, which shall not be published in the Government Gazette, shall be published on the Authority’s website. Article 16 Rights and obligations of the members of the Authority 1. In performing their tasks, the President and the members of the Authority shall be subject to their