UK government adopts draft Brexit withdrawal agreement

The cabinet has agreed a draft withdrawal agreement on the UK’s exit from, and future relationship with the European Union. In terms of data protection, the documents reaffirms the UK government’s commitment to a high level of data protection during and after Brexit.

The future relationship with the EU is described in just seven pages. The EU will commence its evaluation of the UK’s data protection framework with the aim of decisions by the end of 2020. There will be ‘appropriate cooperation between regulators.’ The draft withdrawal agreement talks about ‘essential equivalence’ rather than adequacy.

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