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EU GDPR: Transfers to third countries and international organisations - Chapter V restrictions, adequacy decisions, SCCs/BCRs, derogations, transfer impact assessments, DPF, onward and remote access, processor obligations and enforcement

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Practice notes

This Practice Note examines the overarching ban in Chapter V of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR), on sending personal data beyond the EEA or to an international organisation. It addresses how to recognise a restricted international transfer, onward disclosures, export limitations, adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses (Model Clauses or SCCs), Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs), other appropriate safeguards (ie Article 46 tools) and derogations. It also offers direction on revising SCCs and provides links to further practical materials on deploying SCCs.

In brief

Across the EEA, data protection law aims to ensure information about living persons (ie within the meaning of ‘personal data’) is handled fairly and responsibly. To achieve this, the EU GDPR places extensive duties on those carrying out or determining the ‘processing’ of personal data. In short, ‘processing’ covers virtually any operation on personal data, including storing, sharing, deleting, using or transferring it. A central safeguard under Chapter V of the EU GDPR limits the transfer of personal data to:

any country or territory outside the EEA...

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