On the 14th of April 2021, the European Data
Protection Board (EDPB) adopted two opinions on the European
Commission's draft adequacy decision for the transfers of
personal data from the EU to the UK.
The EDPB assessed the alignment of the UK Data Protection Act to
the GDPR and to the Law Enforcement Directive, and noted
'strong alignment' on key areas between the EU and UK data
protection regimes such as lawful and fair processing for
legitimate purposes, purpose limitation, data quality and
proportionality, data retention, transparency and special
categories of data, to name a few.
Andrea Jelinek, chair of the EDPB, commented that the "UK
data protection framework is largely based on the EU data
protection framework", that the UK has "mirrored for the
most part, the GDPR and LED" and that the EDPB acknowledged
many aspects to be "essentially equivalent". She also
welcomed the Commission's decision to time limit the granted
adequacy and the intention to closely
