Article 48

1.          The committee may open an inquiry, officially or at the request of an interested party, into the way in which the provisions of or pursuant to this national ordinance are applied in relation to data processing.

2.          The committee shall notify the responsible party or the group of responsible parties involved in the inquiry of its provisional findings and shall grant them an opportunity to present their views on this. If the provisional findings relate to the execution of any national ordinance, the committee shall also notify the relevant Minister of this.

3.          In the event of an inquiry opened at the request of the interested party, the committee shall notify the interested party of its findings, unless such notification is inconsistent with the objective of the data processing or the nature of the personal data, or if serious interests of parties other than the applicant, including the responsible party, would be disproportionately harmed as a result. If the committee fails to notify its findings, it shall send the interested party a message such as it sees fit.