Powers
Article 6
In performing the DPO tasks, the DPO: (a) shall, where necessary for his or her tasks have access to the data forming the subject matter of processing operations on personal data and to all offices, data processing installations and data carriers; (b) may request legal opinions from the Legal Service of the Commission; (c) may, in the event of conflict between the DPO and the delegated controller, operational controller or processor relating to the interpretation or implementation of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, inform the competent delegated controller and the Secretary-General; (d) may assign files to the Commission’s Directorates-General or Services concerned for appropriate follow-up; (e) may perform investigations on request, or upon the DPO’s own initiative, into matters and occurrences directly relating to the DPO tasks in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 11; (f) may, when making recommendations and rendering advice: (i) call upon the delegated controller or the processor to comply with a data subject’s request for the exercise of his or her rights pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725; (ii) issue warnings to the delegated controller or the processor when a processing operation infringes provisions of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, and call upon them to bring processing operations into compliance, where appropriate, in a specified manner and within a specified period; (iii) call upon the delegated controller or the processor to suspend data flows to a recipient in a Member State, to a third country or to an international organisation; (iv) request the delegated controller or the processor to report within a set deadline to the DPO on the follow-up given to the DPO’s recommendation or advice; (g) may bring to the attention of the Secretary-General any failure of a delegated controller, an operational controller or a processor to comply with the measures taken pursuant to Article 6(f); (h) shall be responsible for initial decisions on requests for access to documents held by his or her office under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 5 ) .