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ARTICLE · 16 JANUARY 2018

Practical Actions For Complying With The GDPR In France

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The European regulation No. 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, or General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), will enter into force on 25 May 2018. Businesses that fail to comply can be saddled ...

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The European regulation No. 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, or General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), will enter into force on 25 May 2018. Businesses that fail to comply can be saddled with administrative fines that can reach the greater of EUR 10,000,000 and 2% of the world annual turnover of the previous year.

The present article describes in a very practical way the actions that a business established in France must take in order to comply with the GDPR, assuming it is currently complying with the law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978.

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Such a business shall maintain a record of personal data processing activities ("processing activities") of which it is the controller. The record template proposed by the French data protection authority, the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (the "CNIL"), contains a list of processing activities and a descriptive sheet for each processing activity. Each processing activity sheet must indicate, among others,

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