European Commission ‘Confident' EU-US Data Transfer Agreement Will Be In Place By January 2016

In a recent speech in the US, Věra Jourová – EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality – set out the progress that has been made towards an agreement for EU-US data transfers.

Speaking at the Brookings Institution last month, Commissioner Jourová stated that she is confident that agreement will be reached by January 2016. In particular, the Commissioner cited the following reasons for optimism:

• recent guidelines issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union ('CJEU') in its Schrems judgment;
• the advanced state of negotiations between the US and EU, which started in January 2014;
• the fact that agreement is in the best interests of EU and US citizens; and