Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Monday, 1 March 2021
Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Impact of Brexit on Data Protection and Data Flows between the UK and the EU: Discussion
Mr. John O'Dwyer:
They continue to be assessed. There are 12 other adequacy decision in existence at the moment with different countries, which are continually assessed. The most recent one that was agreed was with Japan about two years ago and that is currently under review. There are in-built reviews of those decisions. As I said earlier, there is a four-year sunset clause on this one so a review will have to take place before the end of that period. Equally, at any stage if a data protection authority or the ICO in the UK have any concerns about divergence in legislation, they can bring that to the attention of the European Commission and it will then decide whether there needs to be any suspension of the adequacy decision. Ms Coogan may wish to add to that.
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