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Data records shall be maintained until all the monitoring obligations for the 2021-2027 programming period have been fulfilled. The “right to be forgotten” mentioned in Article 17 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR) does not apply when data is being used to comply with a legal ruling or obligation. The Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) provides the legal basis and stipulates a legal obligation to transmit monitoring data, which will require data processing until the submission of the final report in 2029. For more information on Article 17 of the GDPR see: https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/