VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA A 784 (c) the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union but in a place where the laws of Malta apply by virtue of public international law. PART III Restrictions, Consultation and Prior Authorisation Restrictions. 5. The Minister may, after consultation with the Commissioner and with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for justice, by regulations provide for a restriction to the obligations to which the data controller or processor is subject pursuant to Article 23 of the Regulation. Safeguards and derogations relating to processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes. 6. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-article (4), controllers and processors may derogate from the provisions of Articles 15, 16, 18 and 21 of the Regulation for the processing of personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or official statistics in so far as the exercise of the rights set out in those Articles: (a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of those purposes; and (b) the data controller reasonably believes that such derogations are necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-article (4), controllers and processors may derogate from the provisions of Articles 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the Regulation for the processing of personal data for archiving purposes in the public interest in so far as the exercise of the rights set out in those Articles: (a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of those purposes; and (b) the controller reasonably believes that such derogations are necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes. (3) Where data processing referred to in sub-articles (1) and (2) serves at the same time another purpose, the derogations shall apply only to processing for the purposes referred to in those subarticles. (4) Processing for the purposes referred to in sub-articles (1) and (2) shall be subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of the data subject, including pseudonymisation and other technical and organisational measures to ensure respect for the principle of data minimisation:

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