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How to conduct GDPR transfer impact assessments: EU (EDPB) methodology, evaluating third-country surveillance, and implementing supplementary measures for SCCs, IDTA and BCRs

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We are revising this document to align with the coming into force of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025), which modifies the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. For further detail on DUAA 2025’s compliance impact, consult Practice Note: Data (Use and Access) Act 2025—compliance implications. This Practice Note is aimed at in-house counsel and privacy/compliance specialists working within private sector commercial organisations. It explains how to carry out a transfer impact assessment when exporting personal data from the UK or EU relying on the EU standard contractual clauses (SCCs), the International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA), or binding corporate rules (BCRs). Where one of these transfer tools is used, you are required to evaluate data protection risks in the destination country by undertaking an appropriate transfer assessment. The UK data protection regulator refers to this as a transfer risk assessment (TRA), while EU guidance uses the expression transfer impact assessment (TIA). The EU and UK regulators also diverge in their respective methodologies for completing the assessment. This Practice Note follows the EU approach to completing a TIA, as described in guidelines issued by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). In addition to the above...

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