Day: November 25, 2012

In January this year, the European Commission published an Impact Assessment which estimated that the new Data Protection Regulation would bring administrative savings to the EU, totalling €2.3 billion each year. An analysis published by the Government, last Friday, claims that the burdens would far outweigh the net benefit estimated by the Commission. For the UK alone, the UK claims that the annual net cost of the Regulation (in 2012-13 earnings terms) is estimated to be between £100 million and