Brexit and EU rules: Data Protection Directive – part 5

In part five of our EU Directives series, Stefan Petrovski, accounting supervisor at Primexis, considers the long reach of the revamped and refreshed Data Protection Directive which will net both EU and non-EU members and comes into force in the UK in May 2018

According to a study published in 2016 by Symantec, 92% of French IT decision makers and company executives are worried about the ability of their company to meet the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation.

The latest directive covering data protection came into effect on 24 May 2016 in the EU. This followed the adoption of European Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 dated 27 April 2016. It was accompanied by European directive 2016/680 of 27 April 2016 regulating the transfer of data for police and judicial purposes.

Expect the EU Regulations on this to come into force in the first half of 2018, with a May enactment date expected.

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