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The Romanian National Conference on Confidentiality and Data Protection "PR!VACY ROMANIA 2021" organised by CEDPO  member ASCPD is scheduled to begin on Friday, January 29, 2021, at 09.00 * EET: Eastern European Time (UTC+2). The access to the conference is made directly from the event website www.privacyromania.ro  More than 1000 specialists from Romania and abroad will participate in this...

 European Union EDPB announces public consultation on guidelines on data breach notification examples The EDPB announced, on 18 January 2021, that it will launch a public consultation on its Guidelines 01/2021 on Examples regarding Data Breach Notification. The guidelines consider that since the EDPB's Guidelines on Personal Data Breach Notification under Regulation 2016/679 did not address all...

 European Union EDPB updates statement and information note on Brexit The EDPB released, on 13 January 2021, an updated version of its Statement on the End of the Brexit Transition Period and its Information Note on Data Transfers under the GDPR to the United Kingdom after the Transition Period. The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which provisionally came into force on 1 January 2021...

 European Union Commission publishes report on implementation of specific GDPR provisions The European Commission announced, on 6 January 2021, that its Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers had published its Report on the Implementation of Specific Provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679. This report aims to present the implementation by EU Member States of Articles 8(1), 9(4), 23(1)(c)...

 European Union EDPB adopts 2021-2023 strategy, guidelines on GDPR, PSD2, and restriction of data subject rights in 43rd plenary session EDPB announced, on 16 December 2020, the outcome of its 43rd plenary session. In particular, the EDPB highlighted that it, among other things, adopted its strategy for 2021-2023 setting out the EDPB's strategic objectives, issued a statement on the end of the...

On November 12, 2020, the European Commission published draft implementing decisions on standard contractual clauses for data transfers to processors located in the European Union and to recipients in non-EU countries. CEDPO welcomes the adoption of standardized clauses fostering a harmonised application of the GDPR. Also, the consistency with the GDPR and the ECJ risk-based approach have to be...