Screening of foreign investments and special financial agreements

You can contact our Data Protection Officer in the following ways:

Postadresse: Erhvervsstyrelsen Dahlerups Pakhus, Langelinie Alle 17 2100 Copenhagen Ø att. ”Data Protection Officer”

Phone: 35291000 Email:personal-data-fdi@erst.dk

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

• The Danish Business Authority processes the notified cases and potential personal data obtained through these cases with the purpose of conducting screenings of investments/special financial agreements for potential implications for Danish security or public order. 

• The basis in law for our processing of your personal data ensues from: The Danish Investment Screening Act S 12 and the Executive Order on the transfer of confidential information about certain foreign direct investments, etc. in Denmark.

We process the following categories of personal data about you:  

• General personal data

We disclose your personal data or make it available to the following recipients: 

• Other Danish authorities, ministries, and agencies.

The source of the personal data used for processing the cases is derived from the applications and attachments sent to the Danish Business Authority as part of the application process.

Currently, we cannot say how long we will keep your personal data. However, we can inform you that privacy concerns are considered when determining how long the data will be kept in a concrete case.

If personal information about you has been submitted, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This can be done by contacting us.

If you choose to withdraw your consent, it does not affect the lawfulness of our processing of your personal data based on your previously given consent and up to the time of the withdrawal. Therefore, if you withdraw your consent, it will only take effect from this time.

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation, you have several rights in relation to our processing of data concerning you. If you wish to exercise your rights, you must contact us.  

Right of access 

• You have the right to obtain access to the data we process concerning you, together with a number of other data.  

 Right to rectification (correction) 

• You have the right to have incorrect data concerning you rectified.  

 Right to erasure 

• In special cases, you have the right to have data concerning you erased before the time of our ordinary general erasure.  

 Right to restriction of processing 

• In certain cases, you have the right to restrict the extent to which we process your personal data. If you have the right to restrict processing, we will henceforth only process information with your consent – with the exception of storage – or if a legal claim can be established, exercised or defended, or to protect a person or important public interests.   

Right to object 

• In certain cases, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.  

 Right to transmit data (data portability)  

• In certain cases, you are entitled to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to have this personal data transmitted from one data controller to another without hindrance. 

You can read more about your rights in the Danish Data Protection Agency's guidance on rights of data subjects, available at www.datatilsynet.dk.

You have the right to complain to the Danish Data Protection Agency if you are not satisfied with the way in which we process your personal data. The contact details of the Danish Data Protection Agency are available at www.datatilsynet.dk.