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By Vincent WELLENS, Partner, IP Tech law Lindsay KORTYTKO, Senior Associate, IP ICT, NautaDutilh Avocats Luxembourg S.à r.l.
On 16 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its Schrems II judgment, invalidating the European Commission’s adequacy decision with respect to the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, a little less than five years after doing the same with respect to the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework (the predecessor to the Privacy Shield). In the same judgment, the CJEU confirmed the European Commission’s decision on controller-to-processor standard contractual clauses (SCCs) (the reasoning appears applicable to controller-to-controller SCCs, as well). This judgment is relevant for any organisation...
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