Recital 38

(38)Member States should process any personal data of legal representatives, partners in partnerships and other persons that can lawfully represent a company, and of single shareholders, including personal data which are to be made publicly available in the registers, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679. The Commission should process personal data in the context of this Directive in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council ¹⁶ . In particular, Member States and the Commission should implement appropriate data protection safeguards in order to ensure that the processing of personal data for the purposes of this Directive is limited to what is necessary to achieve its objectives.