Objective
The conference aims to provide legal practitioners and data protection specialists with the necessary guidance to handle implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It will offer an opportunity to discuss with key legal experts the challenges and issues at stake. To complete the picture, international data transfers and recent European case law will also be addressed.
Key topics
- GDPR implementation in practice: the new Working Party 29 guidelines, compliance challenges and strategies for data processors and controllers, added-value for digital citizens
- First assessment of data protection authorities’ new tools for consistent GDPR implementation: One-Stop-Shop, new consistency mechanism, DPAs’ new enforcement powers and harmonisation of sanctions
- Big data in the bigger European picture: GDPR & Convention 108 complementarity
- Current issues and novelties regarding international data transfer mechanisms: adequacy decisions, standard contract clauses (SCCs), binding corporate rules (BCRs), codes of conduct and privacy seals
- Update on recent European case law
Who should attend?
Data protection and IT lawyers, data protection officers, compliance and information officers, representatives of NGOs, judges, staff of data protection authorities, EU and national civil servants.
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More details about the fees and discounts
Early registration discounts
10 % before 11.04.2017
Discounts available
25 % - For young lawyers up to 30 years of age (important: the participant must provide a copy or details of his or her passport or identity card on registration); Full-time staff of universities or comparable academic institutions; Staff of charitable organisations or comparable institutions
40 % - Staff of European Union institutions and agencies;
Staff of ERA’s patrons (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany and the German states, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, City of Trier)
40 % - Fellows of the European Law Institute