38While it is true that the Moniteur belge must publish the document in question as it stands, it is the Moniteur belge alone that undertakes that task and then disseminates the act or document concerned. The publication of such acts and documents without any possibility of checking or amending their content is intrinsically linked to the purposes and means of processing determined by national law, in that the role of an official journal such as the Moniteur belge is confined to informing the public of the existence of those acts and documents, as they stand when sent to that official journal in the form of copies in accordance with the applicable national law, so as to make them enforceable against third parties. Moreover, it would be contrary to the objective of point 7 of Article 4 of the GDPR, referred to in paragraph 28 of the present judgment, to exclude the official journal of a Member State from the concept of ‘controller’ on the ground that it does not exercise control over the personal data contained in its publications (see, by analogy, judgment of 13 May 2014, Google Spain and Google, C‑131/12, EU:C:2014:317, paragraph 34).
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