Following the Schrems II decision last year, there have been many questions about the status of international data transfers between the European Union and United States. The European.
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Le cabinet a pris connaissance des actions et activités à venir dans les prochains semaines voire moi.
1. Cabinet has agreed to drafting instructions being conveyed to the Attorney General’s Office for amendments to be brought to the Mauritius Standards Bureau Act.
The main amendments proposed to the Mauritius Standards Bureau Act pertain to:
(a) replacement of some existing interpretations which are outdated;
(b) inclusion of two new objectives, namely to operate a National Enquiry Point in consultation with other Ministries and to conduct technical investigations in the field of conformity assessment;
(c) formalisation of activities such as formulation of Mauritian Standards and Metrology/Calibration; and
The new Standard Contractual Clauses have been adopted. One of the reasons why the SCCs are so highly anticipated is because of the potential extent of protection they will offer to companies transferring personal data outside of the EEA in the aftermath of Schrems II.
Ending months of anxious speculation from privacy lawyers around the globe, the European Commission announced on Friday that it had adopted final versions of the new Standard.
The new SCCs offer a number of improvements over the old SCCs:
By providing for processor-to-controller and processor-to-processor transfers, the Commission has plugged one of the most significant gaps in the old SCCs. Among other industries, the pharmaceutical industry will welcome the new flexibility: US (and other third country) clinical trial sponsors that are not established in Europe will soon be able to use the SCCs to cover routine transfers of EU clinical study data from their European CROs (which are processors).
In addition, it is now clear that controllers who are subject to the GDPR but are not established in the EU can sign the SCCs as data exporters. This has been a vexingly unclear matter under the old SCCs, with some data protection authorities maintaining that controllers that are not based in the EU cannot sign as the exporter, despite the fact that a large number of companies have chosen to do exactly that in light of the lack of approved alternatives and the st