# Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards 46(e) — GDPR — provision context

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Part of **Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards** (GDPR, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/gdpr/art-46).

## Provision text

### 46(e)

an approved code of conduct pursuant to Article 40 together with binding and enforceable commitments of the controller or processor in the third country to apply the appropriate safeguards, including as regards data subjects' rights; or


## Topics on this provision

- **Codes of Conduct** — https://overview.legal/topics/codes-of-conduct
  Industry codes of conduct for data protection
- **Processors** — https://overview.legal/topics/processors
  Entities that process data on behalf of controllers
- **Controllers** — https://overview.legal/topics/controllers
  Entities that determine purposes and means of processing

## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **EDPB Annual Report 2021** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125941
- **Information Note on the Data Privacy Framework redress mechanism for national security purposes** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125754
- **Guidelines 05/2021 on the Interplay between the application of Article 3 and the provisions on international transfers as per Chapter V of the GDPR** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125866
- **Opinion 12/2024 on the draft decision of the French Supervisory Authority regarding the “Code of Conduct for Service Providers in Clinical Research” submitted by EUCROF** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125740
- **Opinion 17/2021 on the draft decision of the French Supervisory Authority regarding the European code of conduct submitted by the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers (CISPE)** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/126026
- **Information Note on the Data Privacy Framework redress mechanism for national security purposes** §7 (guidance, EDPB) — https://overview.legal/posts/125754
- **Data Protection Regulation and International Arbitration: Can There Be Harmonious Coexistence (with the GDPR Requirements Concerning Cross-Border Data Transfer)?** (literature) — https://overview.legal/posts/132548

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