On 10 February 2021, the Council of the European Union agreed on a mandate for negotiating the final text of the proposed ePrivacy Regulation (the draft ePrivacy Regulation) with the European Parliament and the European...more
On 22 January 2021, the Digital Senior Officials’ meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) approved model contractual clauses for cross-border data flows (ASEAN Model Clauses) and related guidance on...more
Following months of protracted negotiations and coming four and a half years after the UK voted to leave the EU, 24 December 2020 saw the EU and UK finally agree the shape of their future relationship. While the Trade and...more
The General Data Protection Regulation takes effect from 25 May 2018, and will require significant planning and preparation by UK pension schemes. Although many of the basic concepts set out in the GDPR will be familiar,...more
The challenge and risks -
The topic of cybersecurity is seldom out of the press these days, occupying the minds of business leaders and politicians alike. From a business perspective, the ideal outcome would be to...more
After over three years of discussions at many levels, it is now clear that the proposed EU data protection framework will be revised, and that it will be in the form of a Regulation – the General Data Protection Regulation....more
Huge uncertainty has been caused by the recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 6 October that the Safe Harbor decision by the European Commission is invalid. Many companies which previously...more
The discussions between the EU and the U.S. on the Safe Harbor mechanism seemed to be almost there, but this morning the EU Court of Justice’s Advocate General Yves Bot has set the cat among the pigeons in his Opinion on the...more
9/24/2015
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US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
To become law, the proposed text will need to be adopted jointly by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers (i.e. ‘ordinary legislative procedure’). In March 2014, the European Parliament voted in plenary and...more