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<p>As the Prime Minister said in her Mansion House speech, achieving a deal on data
protection is one of the foundations that must underpin the UK-EU trading relationship.
The recently published White Paper (available on gov.uk) sets out the UK’s ambition
for a future EU-UK relationship on data protection, which builds on standard adequacy
arrangements to provide for ongoing regulatory cooperation and joined up enforcement
action between UK and EU data protection authorities. The government is ready to begin
preliminary discussions on an adequacy assessment straight away to provide the earliest
possible reassurance that data flows can continue.</p><p> </p><p>However, a responsible
government should prepare for all potential outcomes, including the unlikely scenario
in which no mutually satisfactory agreement can be reached on data protection. That
is exactly what we are doing across the whole of government, including on data transfer.
Without an adequacy decision or new model in place, it is still possible for personal
data to be transferred to third countries in some circumstances. The EU’s General
Data Protection Regulation and Law Enforcement Directive sets out alternative methods
of transfer, which companies and public authorities may use to transfer data to third
countries in the absence of an adequacy decision. Further guidance on this issue is
available from the ICO website.</p><p> </p><p>As such, we will continue to engage
with organisations that transfer personal data across borders to help them understand
how they would need to operate under a range of outcomes on data protection.</p>
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