Adequacy Agreement for transfers from the EU to the UK: made on Friday, unmade by Sunday?
20 June 2021
No Comments
Today’s Sunday Telegraph reports, on its front page, that the UK Government is sympathetic to the idea that Judgments made by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg do not automatically apply in the UK. If such non-application occurred, then it would jeopardise the Adequacy Agreement concerning personal data flows from the EU to the UK, as finalised by the European Commission last Friday. Why is the UK deemed adequate? Recital 5 to the Agreement states “that the
