On February 29, 2016, the European Commission issued the legal texts to implement the EU-US Privacy Shield and a communication relevant to that.
The Commission also released a draft “adequacy decision”. Once adopted, the adequacy decision establishes that “the safeguards provided when data are transferred under the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield are equivalent to data protection standards in the EU”.
The next steps are the following:
- a committee consisting of representatives of the Member States will be consulted and
- the Article 29 Working Party will issue an opinion.
The Commission shared with the public all the correspondence that it exchanged with the American Government.
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Correspondence with US Government:
EU-U.S. PRIVACY SHIELD FRAMEWORK PRINCIPLES ISSUED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL
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For more information, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal.