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Keypoint: Companies using the previous standard contractual clauses will have eighteen months to transition to the new documents.
Today, the European Commission announced that it has adopted “two sets of standard contractual clauses, one for use between controllers and processors and one for the transfer of personal data to third countries.” The new SCCs take into account new requirements under the General Data Protection Regulation as well as the Court of Justice’s
Schrems II opinion.
The Commission previously issued drafts of these documents. The Commission stated that the final documents take into account comments made by various stakeholders, including the joint opinion of the European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor.
European investigations into whether Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud-based services infringe EU privacy rules have once again shone a spotlight on how and when the United States and the European Union intend to come up with a new Privacy Shield.
The two recently approved Codes of Conduct for the cloud industry, which will be open to everyone willing to subscribe, could foster the uptake of a technology at the heart of the digital economy, following a green light from the European Data Protection Board.
Ahead of US President Joe Biden’s maiden trip to Europe in mid-June, Germany and the United States are holding talks in Washington in a bid to settle the long-running row over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The timing of the German-American rendezvous is anything but coincidental.
Germany’s
Funke Media Group reported earlier this week that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s two top aides have been tasked with preparing a compromise deal on Nord Stream 2 – a pipeline meant to bring Russian gas to Western Europe – ahead of Biden’s visit.
A German delegation led by Merkel’s foreign policy aide, Jan Hecker, and her chief economic adviser, Lars-Hendrik Roeller, is holding a crisis meeting on Wednesday with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Trade Representative Katherine Tai in the Washington residence of the German ambassador to the US, Emily Haber.
By Neil Hodge2021-05-26T18:08:00+01:00
As the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) marks its third anniversary, lawyers and data protection experts continue to raise concerns that fine decisions are largely arbitrary, vary considerably from one EU country to the next, and lack transparency.
According to Privacy Affairs, a website that compiles GDPR enforcement data, there have been 661 fines under the law as of May 17 totaling approximately €293 million (U.S. $359 million). France’s €50 million penalty against Google in 2019 remains the highest. Spain has issued a third (222) of the total number of fines logged some three times that of Italy, in second place with 73.