The transfer of personal data outside of the EU is only allowed under certain conditions as set out in Directive 95/46/EC and also in the General Data Protection Regulation which will be fully applicable as of May 2018. If a country is deemed by the European Commission to offer an adequate level of protection, it will be subject to the same rules as an EU Member State, which means that the recipient of the data in that state will not be obliged to take specific measures to allow for the transfer. Transferring data to a country without an adequacy decision requires appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses or binding corporate rules. Derogations to this rule can be obtained in very specific cases. The European Data Protection Board, of which the EDPS is a member, will provide the Commission with Opinions on this subject.
EDPS' recommendations on the proposed European Border and Coast Guard Regulation
Letter on the use of a US-based company for sending out alerts and newsletters at the European External Action Service (Case 2015-1122)
Preliminary Opinion on the agreement between the United States of America and the European Union on the protection of personal information relating to the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offences
Keynote address by Giovanni Buttarelli to ENISA Annual Privacy Forum 2015, Luxembourg.
Opinion on the EU-Switzerland agreement on the automatic exchange of tax information