Article 54. Processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes

(1) Processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall take place subject to the existence of appropriate safeguards, in accordance with this Law, for the rights and freedoms of data subjects. Those safeguards shall ensure that the technical and organisational measures necessary to ensure, in particular, respect for the principle of data minimisation are in place. Those measures may include pseudonymisation, provided that those purposes can be fulfilled in that manner. Where those purposes can be fulfilled by further processing which does not permit or no longer permits the identification of data subjects, those purposes shall be fulfilled in that manner.

(2) Art. 15, 16, 18 and 21 shall not apply where personal data are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes, subject to the conditions and safeguards referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article, in so far as the rights provided for in those Articles are likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the specific purposes, and such derogations are necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes.

(3) Art. 15, 16 and 18–21 shall not apply where personal data are processed for archiving purposes in the public interest, subject to the conditions and safeguards referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article, in so far as the rights provided for in those Articles are likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the specific purposes, and such derogations are necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes.

(4) Where processing referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3) serves at the same time another purpose, the derogations shall apply only to processing for the purposes referred to in those paragraphs.