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GDPR · pillar 5 of 6

International transfers

Leaving the EEA needs a named mechanism, and since Schrems II, a look at the destination.

  1. 13 Adequacy is the easy road A transfer to a third country is free of further conditions where the Commission has issued an adequacy decision for…
  2. 14 SCCs plus a look at the destination Without adequacy, the usual tool is the standard contractual clauses — but since Schrems II they are not enough on…
  3. 15 Derogations are for the occasional case Article 49 derogations — explicit consent, contractual necessity, important public interest — exist for transfers that…

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Read against Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), Court of Justice of the EU, Case C-311/18 (Schrems II), 16 July 2020 on . Regulations and frameworks change; the date is there so you can tell whether this has kept up.