EU-UK Adequacy deals are not done

02/04/2021 | Centre for EU Reform

The European Commission's decision proposing two adequacy decisions for the transfer of personal data to the UK, under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Law Enforcement Directive (LED),  came as a  welcome relief to both the UK and EU governments. The decision is not final, and the road ahead will be bumpy. Many MEPs are concerned that the UK plans to diverge from EU rules on data protection with a significant threat of legal challenges on the horizon. But the real danger to the EU's plans to establish global data protection rules come from China and not the UK or US.

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