(11)the following articles are inserted:‘Article 6a1.The Council and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (the “High Representative”) may process personal data in order to carry out their tasks under this Decision, in particular:
(a)as regards the Council, for preparing and making amendments to Annex I;
(b)as regards the High Representative, for preparing amendments to Annex I.
2.The Council and the High Representative may process, where applicable, relevant data relating to criminal offences committed by listed natural persons, to criminal convictions or to security measures concerning such persons, only to the extent that such processing is necessary for the preparation of Annex I.3.For the purposes of this Decision, the Council and the High Representative are designated as “controllers” within the meaning of point (8) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, in order to ensure that the natural persons concerned can exercise their rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.Article 7aActions by natural or legal persons, entities or bodies shall not give rise to liability of any kind on their part, if they did not know, and had no reasonable cause to suspect, that their actions would infringe the measures set out in this Decision.