ARTICLE · 12 FEBRUARY 2019

Cyprus Enacts National Legislation Supplementing The GDPR

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EU Member States are enacting legislation regulating specific processing situations and other aspects which supplement the GDPR and enhance this legal certainty.

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Anastasios A. Antoniou

Christina McCollum

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ensures a consistent level of protection for natural persons throughout the EU in a manner which provides legal certainty and transparency. EU Member States are enacting legislation regulating specific processing situations and other aspects which supplement the GDPR and enhance this legal certainty.

Cyprus enacted the Protection of Natural Persons Regarding the Processing of their Personal Data and the Free Movement of such Data Law 125(I) of 2018 (the Law) on 31 July 2018 to supplement the GDPR. We highlight the key aspects of the Law below.

Processing by Courts and Parliament

The processing of personal data by courts of law in the course of serving justice and by Parliament in the course of exercising its powers is lawful pursuant to the provisions of the Law.

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