Timescale set for data protection ‘adequacy’ decision after Brexit

On Wednesday evening, the UK government and European Commission announced that the UK and EU27 countries had reached a draft agreement on the terms of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. That draft agreement, which is still to be ratified by the UK parliament and EU27 member states, was published alongside a number of other documents, including an outline of the political declaration on the future EU-UK relationship.

According to the political declaration, the Commission will assess UK data protection standards on the basis of the EU’s “adequacy framework” with a view to adopting an “adequacy” decision by the end of 2020. Over the same period, the UK will take steps to ensure comparable facilitation of personal data flows to the Union.

Full article: BREXIT: timescale set for data protection ‘adequacy’ decision