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In its judgment of 6 October 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the so-called Safe Harbour Decision of the European Commission. According to this decision, US entities which were (self-)certified as being «Safe Harbour» were considered to ensure an adequate level of data protection.
Furthermore, the Court held that an «adequacy» decision whereby the European Commission considers a «third» country outside the EEA to provide an adequate level of data protection, does not prevent national data protection authorities from examining the complaint of a data subject regarding the transfer of personal data to a third country, where the data subject believes that the country in question does not provide an adequate level of protection.
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