It Happened Again (Part 3): the Schrems II Guidance and New SCCs (Pre-Consultation)

A deep dive into the sweeping changes to EU data transfer rules

The long-awaited guidance from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the modernised standard contractual clauses (SCCs) from the European Commission have finally arrived. These documents surface four months after the ECJ’s landmark Schrems II judgement.

While the Court upheld the validity of the SCCs adopted in 2010 for controller-to-processor da…