Emmanuel Szafran spoke at several multidisciplinary seminars in May and June 2016 on the recently adopted EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
After nearly four years of intense negotiations, the lengthy regulation was formally adopted by the European Parliament on 14 April 2016. The GDPR introduces new European data protection rules that will directly apply in all EU Member States. It modernises the current data protection framework and strengthens compliance obligations. The regulation will apply to EU controllers and processors but also to organisations not established in the EU processing personal data of data subjects located in the EU in relation to offerings of goods or services or behavioral monitoring. In view of the new enforcement powers of national data protection authorities and of the potentially drastic sanctions, compliance with the new GDPR is a must.
Prepare now. The new Regulation can have a significant impact on your company. It is key for companies to immediately start reviewing their operations that involve collecting and processing personal data, and to implement the new data protection requirements from both a legal and operational point of view before the regulation becomes applicable in spring 2018.