CJEU - C-311/18 - Facebook Ireland and Schrems
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EU LAW CLEAN-UP The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated Commission Decision 2016/1250 (the EU-US Privacy Shield), but affirmed the validity of standard contractual clauses (SCCs), providing that they include effective mechanisms to ensure compliance in practice with the “essentially equivalent” level of protection guaranteed by the GDPR to EU citizens.The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated Commission Decision 2016/1250 (the EU-US Privacy Shield), but affirmed the validity of standard contractual clauses (SCCs), providing that they include effective mechanisms to ensure compliance in practice with the “essentially equivalent” level of protection guaranteed by the GDPR to EU citizens. In its judgment on October 6th 2015 (Case C-362/14, “Schrems I”), the CJEU invalidated the Safe Harbor and stated that, in order to be "adequate", the level of data protection offered by the third country should be “essentially equivalent” to that being offered i