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ARTICLE · 08 JUNE 2023

China's Standard Contracts For Exporting Personal Information Guidelines Have Been Released!

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The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published new Guidelines for the filing of Standard Contracts for Exporting Personal Information (Guidelines) on 30 May 20233...

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The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published new Guidelines for the filing of Standard Contracts for Exporting Personal Information (Guidelines) on 30 May 2023 – just two days before the Chinese Standard Contract for the Export of Personal Information (SC) was set to become effective on 1 June 2023.

In essence, the Guidelines echo the filing requirements set out in the Measures on Standard Contracts for the Export of Personal Information (SC Measures). They also provide an outline of the filing process that personal information processors (Data Controllers) are required to undertake under the SC Measures.

Background

The SC Measures, which were first released by the CAC on 24 February 2023, define the scope of application of the SC and prohibit data controllers from dividing data exports into separate batches to circumvent the Security Assessment data export mechanism (for more detail, please see our previous Legal Update on  China: The "Gold" Standard

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