Council’s exceptions from the Data Protection Regulation degrade the privacy protection below Directive 95/46/EC
3 August 2015
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This blog explains, in detail, how the Council of Minister’s text of the Regulation, in particular the exceptions specified in Article 21 (A.21) and the flexibility granted to Member States to enact variations to the obligations under the Regulation, are very likely to result in a level of data protection below the standard established by Directive 95/46/EC. Given that the relevant parts of the Regulation (e.g. the exceptions in A.21) are being considered in current Trilog discussions, the blog provides a link
