The European Commission has adopted two adequacy decisions confirming the UK as an adequate jurisdiction for GDPR and Law Enforcement Directive purposes, which will allow the uninterrupted free flow of personal data from the European Union to the UK.
The issue of international data transfers has long been the main area of concern from a data protection perspective regarding Brexit; particularly whether or not the UK ensures an essentially equivalent level of data protection to that guaranteed under EU legislation.
As the interim data transfer window under the Brexit Trade Agreement expired on 28 June 2021, the formal adoption of the decisions means that organisations do not need to put in place additional transfer mechanisms to legitimise the transfer of data from the EU to the UK.
For further information, see this post on our Data Notes blog.
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