# General Data Protection Regulation

Provisions governing the scope, traditionally at the beginning of the wording of a rule, determine the extent of its application to specific legal relations, starting from a number of factors, such as entities affected by the given legislation (personal scope), territoriality (territorial scope), time (temporal scope) and finally material scope, which most affects the relevant legal relations in terms of their material (content) side.

The new privacy policy adopted by GDPR will apply from May 2018 and will apply to each of the approximately 500 million Europeans and all companies operating in the internal market of the European Union.