Cross-Border Data Transfers after the Cjeu's Safe Harbour Decision

C-362/14 (Schrems).

On 29 February 2016, the European Commission issued the legal texts that will put in place the EU-US ‘Privacy Shield’ together with a Communication summarising the actions taken over the last years to restore trust in transatlantic data flows since the 2013 surveillance revelations. For further details, see: <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-433_en.htm?locale=en>.

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Statement of the Article 29 Working Party (Brussels, 16 October 2015) <http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/press-material/press-release/art29_press_material/2015/20151016_wp29_statement_on_schrems_judgement.pdf>.

Brussels, 6.11.2015 COM (2015) 566 final, ‘Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the Transfer of Personal Data from the EU to the United States of America under Directive 95/46/EC following the Judgment by the Court of Justice in Case C-362/14’ (Schrems) <http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/files/eu-us_data_flows_communication_final.pdf>.

See further: Svantesson Dan , ‘What is “Law”, if “the Law” is Not Something That “Is”? A Modest Contribution to a Major Question’ (September 2013) 26(3) Ratio Juris 456.

Case C-101/01, Criminal Proceedings against Bodil Lindqvist, 6 November 2003, 69.

See further: Svantesson Dan , Will Data Privacy Change the Low? (31 May 2015) <http://blog.oup.com/2015/05/investigative-jurisdiction-law/>.

Reding Viviane , ‘The EU Data Protection Regulation: Promoting Technological Innovation and Safeguarding Citizens' Rights – Intervention at the Justice Council’ (Speech delivered at the Intervention at the Justice Council, Brussels, Belgium, 4 March 2014) <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-175_en.htm>.

Fuller Lon L , The Morality of Law (Yale University Press, 2nd ed, 1969) 39.

See further: Svantesson Dan , ‘The Holy Trinity of Legal Fictions Undermining the Application of Law to the Global Internet’ (2015) 23(3) International Journal of Law and Information Technology 219.