(d) when it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and is
exclusively carried out for that purpose.
4 – The processing of data relating to health and sex life, including genetic data, shall be
permitted if it is necessary for the purposes of preventive medicine, medical diagnosis, the
provision of care or treatment or the management of health-care services, provided those
data are processed by a health professional bound by professional secrecy or by another
person also subject to an equivalent obligation of secrecy and are notified to the CNPD
under article 27, and where suitable safeguards are provided.
1 – Central registers relating to persons suspected of illegal activities, criminal and
administrative offences and decisions applying penalties, security measures, fines and
additional penalties may only be created and kept by public services vested with that
specific responsibility by virtue of the law establishing their organisation and functioning,
subject to observance of procedural and data protection rules provided for in a legal
order, with the prior opinion of the CNPD.
2 – The processing of personal data relating to persons suspected of illegal activities,
criminal and administrative offences and decisions applying penalties, security measures,
fines and additional penalties may be authorised by the CNPD, subject to observance of
the rules for the protection of data and the security of information, when such processing
is necessary for pursuing the legitimate purposes of the controller, provided the
fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject are not overriding.
3 – The processing of personal data for the purposes of police investigations shall be
restricted to the processing necessary to prevent a specific danger or to prosecute a
particular offence and to exercise the responsibilities provided for in the respective
implementing statutes or another legal provision or in the terms of an international
agreement or convention to which Portugal is party.
1 - The combination of personal data not provided for in a legal provision shall be subject
to the authorisation of the CNPD, requested by the controller or jointly by the
corresponding controllers under Article 27.
2 - The combination of personal data must be necessary for pursuing the legal or statutory
purposes and legitimate interests of the controller, must not involve discrimination or a
reduction in the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subjects, and must be
covered by adequate security measures and take account of the type of data subject to
combination.
1 – The controller or his representative shall provide a data subject from whom data
relating to himself are collected with the following information, except where he already
has it:
(a) the identity of the controller and of his representative, if any;
(b) the purposes of the processing;
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