EU Commission Publishes Drafts Of UK Adequacy Decisions

The EU Commission published the draft adequacy decision for the United Kingdom, acknowledging that the UK is a jurisdiction with adequate protections for personal data. Once adopted by the EU Commission, the decision would allow the seamless flow of personal data from the EU to the United Kingdom.

The European General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") establishes several mechanisms for international transfer of data from the EU to non-EU countries. Under the GDPR, the easiest and safest mechanism for the international data transfers is the transfer of data to countries recognized by the EU Commission as having adequate protection of personal data with an essentially equivalent level to the level of protection in the EU.