Recital 117
Recital 117 of the GDPR, as in force since 25 May 2018. Its key is gdpr-recitals:rec-117.
The establishment of supervisory authorities in Member States, empowered to perform their tasks and exercise their powers with complete independence, is an essential component of the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of their personal data. Member States should be able to establish more than one supervisory authority, to reflect their constitutional, organisational and administrative structure.