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EC Floats Draft Data Transfer Clauses

The European Commission proposed standard contractual clauses for personal data transfers from the EU to third countries, the European Data Protection Board said Friday. This will align SCCs with the EU general data protection regulation and the judgment of the…

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European Court of Justice in "Schrems II" (see 2010190059). They will "better reflect the widespread use of new and more complex processing operations often involving multiple data importers and exporters." The EDPB and European Data Protection Supervisor will vet the draft. SCCs "are not a catch-all solution for data transfers post-Schrems II," said EDPB Chair Andrea Jelinek: They're an important piece of the puzzle but it's up to data exporters to "make the puzzle complete" by bringing the level of protection of data they transfer up to the EU standard of essential equivalence.