Germany:
German Federal Cabinet Adopts GDPR Implementation Bill
29 March 2017
by
Daniel J. McLoon
,
Mauricio Paez
,
Richard Johnson
,
Jonathon Little
,
Kevin Lyles
,
Todd McClelland
,
Jeff Rabkin
,
Adam Salter
,
Michiru Takahashi
,
Undine Von Diemar
,
Olivier Haas
,
Jörg Hladjk
,
Anand Varadarajan
and
Nicole Perry
Jones Day
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On February 1, 2017, the German Federal Cabinet adopted (source document in German) the
revised Draft Implementation Bill of the Federal Ministry
of Interior (source document in German) for the upcoming EU
GDPR. The GDPR, while aimed at streamlining the data protection
requirements for all EU Member States, contains opening clauses
that allow Member States to deviate in some circumstances. The
proposal for a new Federal Data Protection Act ("FDPA")
provides details regarding the scope and implementation of existing
GDPR provisions and implements additional data protection
requirements from the current FDPA.
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