1. Article 2(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), read in conjunction with the first sentence of Article 16(2) TFEU,

must be interpreted as meaning that processing of personal data consisting in the publication, pursuant to national anti-doping rules, of the names of athletes sanctioned for infringing those rules, the sports discipline practised by them, the infringement of those rules that has been committed, the sanction imposed on those athletes, and the start and end dates of that sanction, comes within the scope of EU law and, accordingly, within the scope of that regulation.

For rectifying gender-identity data in a public register, the person concerned may be required to provide relevant and sufficient evidence reasonably needed to show that the data are inaccurate. A Member State may not, under any circumstances, make that right conditional on proof of gender reassignment surgery.