European Parliament Committee Not Enthusiastic About New Transatlantic Privacy Shield

A European Parliament committee that deals with the topics of civil liberties and justice has criticised a proposed data protection framework between the EU and the U.S. For several reasons, it advises against the European Commission taking an adequacy decision pursuant to the GDPR on the basis of the proposed framework.

Last year on 25 March, the European Commission and the United States announced that an agreement in principle had been reached on a transatlantic data privacy framework (the Principle Agreement) that should address the concerns of the European Court of Justice as expressed in its Schrems II judgment of 16 July 2020 (ECLI:EU:C:2020:559). The so-called EU-U.S. Privacy Shield had been annulled by that judgment and cannot be used as a valid mechanism for the transfer of personal data from the EU to recipients in the U.S. since then.