On April 25, 2018, the Personal Information Protection Commission released draft guidelines on the processing of personal data transferred from the European Union for public comments (source document in Japanese). Under the draft guidelines, legally binding rules that will apply to the personal data transferred from the European Union to Japan based upon the European Union's adequacy decision.
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