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In recent weeks, there has been a series of important developments affecting cross-border data transfers. First, on 21 June 2021, the European Data Protection Board ( EDPB ) published its final, much-anticipated Recommendations 01/2020 on supplementary measures to ensure compliance with EU data protection laws. Second, on 27 June 2021, the European Commission s new standard contractual clauses ( SCCs ) came into effect. Finally, on 28 June 2021, the European Commission adopted two adequacy decisions in respect of the UK.
The EDPB adopted a final version of the Recommendations on supplementary measures following public consultation. The Recommendations were first adopted in November 2020 following the Schrems II decision, in which the Court of Justice of the EU (
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On 14 April 2021, the European Data Protection Board ( EDPB ) announced that it had adopted two Opinions on the draft UK adequacy decisions issued by the European Commission on 19 February 2021. The EDPB’s take on the draft adequacy decisions is broadly positive, and will come as welcome news to UK and EEA businesses with cross-border data flows.
In the run-up to the end of the Transition Period under the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement on 31 December 2020, there had been doubts as to how cross-border data transfers from the EU to the UK would work, in light of the prohibition on such transfers set out in the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive (the