Guidelines 01/2019 on Codes of Conduct and Monitoring Bodies under the GDPR
Section 8.1 Submission
48. Code owners should formally submit their draft code in either an electronic or written format to a CompSA which will act as the principal authority for the approval of the code. The CompSA will revert to the code owners acknowledging receipt of the documentation and proceed to carry out a review as to whether the draft code meets the requirements as set out above before proceeding to carry out a full evaluation of its contents. The CompSA will immediately notify all other supervisory authorities of the submission of a code and provide the salient details which will allow for ease of identification and reference. All supervisory authorities should confirm by return whether they are concerned SAs as per Article 4 (22) (a) and (b) of the GDPR.