Recipient

Definition in the Law art. 4

a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. Public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with normative acts shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall comply with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;

In plain words

A recipient is any person or body to which the data is disclosed, whether or not it is a third party. Public authorities that receive data in a particular inquiry under normative acts are not recipients. The bank to which a company passes its employees’ data so that salaries can be paid is a recipient.