BeCRO - The 'Schrems II' decision: EU-US data transfers in question: status

In July 2020, in the so-called “Schrems II” decision, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the European Commission’s Privacy Shield Decision invalid, thereby making transfers of personal data on the basis of the Privacy Shield Decision illegal. Furthermore, the Court stipulated stricter requirements for the transfer of personal data based on standard contract clauses (SCCs).

During this interactive webinar, Hans Graux will explain more in detail this Schrems II decision, the consequences for the transfer of personal data between EU and US, the current status and an outlook for the future.

Speaker

Hans Graux

Hans Graux is an IT lawyer and partner at the Brussels based law firm Timelex (www.timelex.eu), which specialises in information and technology law in the broadest sense. Hans graduated in Law in 2002, and obtained a complementary degree in IT in 2003. He worked as a research assistant at the Catholic University of Louvain, before becoming a lawyer at the bar of Brussels in 2005. In July 2007, he co-founded Timelex. He advises various national governments and the European Commission, as well as a broad range of private sector clients, in relation to data protection, electronic signatures, electronic identity management, cloud computing and information security. Furthermore, he is a member of the ICT Committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), and Member of the ICT Committee of the Order of Flemish Bars.