Keypoint: The UK/EU Brexit agreement provides for
the continuation of UK/EU cross-border data transfers for the next
four to six months, allowing the European Commission more time to
consider issuing an adequacy decision.
On December 24, 2020, the United Kingdom and the European Union
announced a number of agreements concerning the United
Kingdom's exit from the European Union (Brexit).
As part of the
Trade and Cooperation Agreement (Agreement), the sides reached
an interim provision for the transmission of personal data to the
United Kingdom. Specifically, the parties agreed that for
“the duration of the specified period, transmission of
personal data from the Union to the United Kingdom shall not be
considered [a] transfer to a third country under Union law,”
provided that the United Kingdom does not modify its existing data
protection law and does not exercise certain provisions provided
for in that law without EU agreement.
