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Third country definition

What does Third country mean? In data protection practice, a third country is any destination outside the relevant home regime to which personal data are exported, thereby engaging the international transfers rules. Under the UK GDPR, it is expressly defined as a country or territory outside the UK. Under the EU GDPR, the term is not separately defined; however, because the Regulation has eea relevance and is incorporated into the EEA agreement, it is understood to mean any country or territory outside the EEA (the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). Ireland follows this EEA meaning. Usage is consistent across England & Wales, Scotland...

EU GDPR: 2004/2010 controller-to-controller SCCs for EEA-to-EEA-to-third-country controller transfers and onward transfers between third-country controllers (Archived)

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Practice notes

ARCHIVED:

On 7 June 2021, a notice appeared in the Official Journal of the EU that: (a) introduced new standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for exporting personal data governed by the EU GDPR to non-EEA destinations, available for use from 27 June 2021; and (b) revoked, after a transitional period, the earlier 2001, 2004 and 2010 international transfer SCCs.

For more detail, see Practice Note: EU GDPR—transfers of personal data internationally and to international organisations.

This Practice Note concerns the 2004 and/or 2010 SCCs and stopped being updated when the new (2021) international SCCs were first released.

Purpose of this Practice Note

As outlined in Practice Note: UK GDPR and EU GDPR—transfers of personal data internationally and to international organisations, Chapter V of the General data protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR) sets limits on sending personal data beyond the EEA (EEA Transfer Restrictions).

This Practice Note shows how standard contractual clauses approved in advance by the European Commission (often called Model Clauses and, in this Practice Note, shortened to ‘SCCs’) can be relied upon to meet the EEA Transfer Restrictions.

In the scenario below, it addresses use of SCCs for EEA data exports under the EU GDPR where relevant...

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