GermanyGDPR Chapter V, Cross-Border Transfer of Personal Data from Germany
Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Arts. 44-49
In force since .
A cross border transfer rule binding public and private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Operator establishment, Market targeting, User location, Place of effect
- Audit expectation
- continuous
- Who audits it
- Self
- Where the report goes
- Produced on request
What it requires
- Rely on a European Commission adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses with a transfer impact assessment, Binding Corporate Rules, or a narrow Article 49 derogation before moving personal data of a person in Germany outside the European Economic Area.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information) (guidance, recorded ); Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (Schrems II), judgment of the Court of Justice of (Grand Chamber) (recorded ).
In the frameworks
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P2Policies, processes, and procedures for enabling data review, transfer, sharing or disclosure, alteration, and deletion are established and in place (e.g., to maintain data quality, manage data retention).
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Case link
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62018CJ0311
- Guidance link
- https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Fachthemen/Datenschutzpraxis/Internationaler-Datentransfer/Internationaler-Datentransfer-node.html
- Case citation
- Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (Schrems II), judgment of the Court of Justice of (Grand Chamber)
- Guidance body
- Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information)
- Open questions
- Does a transfer that relies on the adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1795, stay lawful under Article 45 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 while the appeal in Case C-703/25 P seeks its annulment?
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Regulator
Logging duty
For a transfer that relies on the compelling legitimate interests derogation, the controller or processor documents its assessment and the suitable safeguards in its Article 30 records.
- Kind
- Explicit
- As of
- Provision
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Art. 49(6)
- Trigger
- personal_data_processing
Why the legislator wanted it
- As of
- Quote
- Each controller and processor should be obliged to cooperate with the supervisory authority and make those records, on request, available to it, so that it might serve for monitoring those processing operations.
- Source link
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng
- Source kind
- Recital
- Purpose
- accountability_demonstration
- regulator_supervision
What this law does
Transferring personal data of a person in Germany outside the European Economic Area requires a European Commission adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding Corporate Rules, or a narrow Article 49 derogation, backed by the highest Article 83(5) fine tier.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app processes personal data.
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