--- title: "Article 66 — Urgency procedure" type: regulation legal_status: in_force source: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02016R0679-20160504" source_retrieved: 2026-09-28 shortTitle: "Article 66 — Urgency procedure" instrument_type: level1_regulation authority: Commission binding: true binding_character: binding mica_level2: false legal_basis: "Regulation (EU) 2016/679" instrument: gdpr celex: "32016R0679" regulation: GDPR regulation-full: "Regulation (EU) 2016/679" article: 66 status: in_force object_id: eu.gdpr.legal_text.article.66 text_version: "Consolidated version of 4 May 2016" source_url: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02016R0679-20160504" check_status: matched verified: true last_checked: 2026-10-26 --- *In force · Consolidated version of 4 May 2016 · Checked against EUR-Lex on 26 Oct 2026 · [Official source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02016R0679-20160504)* 1. In exceptional circumstances, where a [supervisory authority concerned](https://www.headlesslaw.com/definitions/gdpr/supervisory-authority-concerned) considers that there is an urgent need to act in order to protect the rights and freedoms of data subjects, it may, by way of derogation from the consistency mechanism referred to in [Articles 63](63.md), [64](64.md) and [65](65.md) or the procedure referred to in [Article 60](60.md), immediately adopt provisional measures intended to produce legal effects on its own territory with a specified period of validity which shall not exceed three months. The [supervisory authority](https://www.headlesslaw.com/definitions/gdpr/supervisory-authority) shall, without delay, communicate those measures and the reasons for adopting them to the other supervisory authorities concerned, to the Board and to the Commission. 2. Where a supervisory authority has taken a measure pursuant to paragraph 1 and considers that final measures need urgently be adopted, it may request an urgent opinion or an urgent binding decision from the Board, giving reasons for requesting such opinion or decision. 3. Any supervisory authority may request an urgent opinion or an urgent binding decision, as the case may be, from the Board where a competent supervisory authority has not taken an appropriate measure in a situation where there is an urgent need to act, in order to protect the rights and freedoms of data subjects, giving reasons for requesting such opinion or decision, including for the urgent need to act. 4. By derogation from [Article 64(3)](64.md) and [Article 65(2)](65.md), an urgent opinion or an urgent binding decision referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article shall be adopted within two weeks by simple majority of the members of the Board. *** [Chapter VII — Cooperation and consistency](../chapters/vii.md) · [← Article 65](65.md) · [Article 67 →](67.md)