
Article 1 
Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 is amended as follows:

((1)) the text of the privacy statement set out in the model for statement of support form at the end of part A is replaced by the following:
'Privacy statement: In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, your personal data provided on this form will only be used for the support of the initiative and made available to the competent national authorities for the purpose of verification and certification. You are entitled to request from the organisers of this initiative access to, rectification of, erasure and restriction of processing of your personal data.Your data will be stored by the organisers for a maximum retention period of 18 months after the date of registration of the proposed citizens’ initiative, or one month after submitting that initiative to the Commission, whichever is the earlier. It might be retained beyond these time limits in the case of administrative or legal proceedings, for a maximum of one week after the date of conclusion of these proceedings.Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge at any time a complaint with a data protection authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that your data is unlawfully processed.The organisers of the citizens’ initiative are the controllers in the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation and they can be contacted using the details provided on this form.The contact details of the data protection officer (if any) are available at the web address of this initiative in the European Commission’s register, as provided on this form.The contact details of the national authority which will receive and process your personal data and the contact details of the national data protection authorities can be consulted at: http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/data-protection.';
((2)) the text of the privacy statement set out in the model for statement of support form at the end of part B is replaced by the following:
'Privacy statement: In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, your personal data provided on this form will only be used for the support of the initiative and made available to the competent national authorities for the purpose of verification and certification. You are entitled to request from the organisers of this initiative access to, rectification of, erasure and restriction of processing of your personal data.Your data will be stored by the organisers for a maximum retention period of 18 months after the date of registration of the proposed citizens’ initiative, or one month after submitting that initiative to the Commission, whichever is the earlier. It might be retained beyond these time limits in the case of administrative or legal proceedings, for a maximum of one week after the date of conclusion of these proceedings.Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge at any time a complaint with a data protection authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that your data is unlawfully processed.The organisers of the citizens’ initiative are the controllers in the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation and they can be contacted using the details provided on this form.The contact details of the data protection officer (if any) are available at the web address of this initiative in the European Commission’s register, as provided on this form.The contact details of the national authority which will receive and process your personal data and the contact details of the national data protection authorities can be consulted at: http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/data-protection.'.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 9 July 2018.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER