1. 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 for preparing and making amendments to this Decision and its Annexes.
2. 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 Council [Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).], in relation to the processing activities necessary to accomplish the tasks referred to in paragraph 1.