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The current expectation is that the European Commission will issue the new SCCs in two weeks’ time (though this could be subject to delay).
On 12 November 2020, the European Commission published a revised set of draft standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data from the European Union to third countries (the “
Revised SCCs”). A public consultation on the Revised SCCs was also opened on the same date, and closed on 10 December 2020. As part of the broader consultation process, the European Data Protection Board (the “
EDPB”) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (the “
To mark the third anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Paul Micallef Grimaud met with Information and Data Protection Commissioner Ian Deguara to discuss the lessons learned and the challenges that lie ahead.
The introduction of GDPR did not bring about a revolution as some may have feared, Malta’s data protection commissioner believes.
“It was more of an evolution of the previous framework,” Ian Deguara said, as he however acknowledged that the business community underwent a dramatic shift in the way data protection and privacy rights were considered. As Deguara put it, the introduction of the significant fines was an alarm bell that could not go unheeded and gave no other option but for controllers and processors to start taking data protection seriously.