GDPR standard contractual clauses

- Standard Contractual Clauses for the Transfer of Personal Data to Controllers
- Standard Contractual Clauses for the Transfer of Personal Data to Processors

Answer:

The European Commission is empowered to recognize standard contractual clauses (known as model contract clauses) as offering adequate safeguards and allow entities to use these clauses to regulate international data transfers (where one party is outside the EU)

- Standard Contractual Clauses for the Transfer of Personal Data to Controllers were issued under Commission Decision 2001/497/EC, dated 15 June 2001 – in which the Commission approved model clauses for transfers from data controllers in the EEA to data controllers outside the EEA.

- Standard Contractual Clauses for the Transfer of Personal Data to Processors were issued under Commission Decision 2002/16/EC, dated 27 December 2001 – in which the Commission approved model clauses for transfers from data controllers in the EEA to data processors outside the EEA.

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