Key considerations as Brexit transitional period comes to close

摘要

With a month to go before the transitional arrangements between the EU and the UK expire, organisations are preparing for the impact of the UK sitting outside the EEA without an adequacy arrangement. The draft Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (‘the Regulations’) will come into force in the UK on 1st January 2021, and will consolidate and amend the GDPR and UK DPA18 to create a new UK GDPR. The responsibilities of controllers in the UK will not change and GDPR standards will continue to apply. The extraterritoriality of the UK’s data protection framework will also continue to apply.