228. Section 7 of the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 is amended—

(a) by the insertion of the following definition after the definition of “Commission”:

“ ‘Data Protection Regulation’ means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016⁵⁰ on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation);”,

and

(b) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “personal data”:

“ ‘personal data’ means personal data within the meaning of—

(a) the Data Protection Regulation, or

(b) Part 5 of the Data Protection Act 2018.”.