European Data Protection Day 2021 – Transborder Transfers

The Council of Europe will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its Convention 108 on data protection on 28 January 2021, during Germany’s Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. On the same date, Germany’s Conference of the Independent Data Protection Authorities of the Federation and the Federal States will observe the annual European Data Protection Day.

The Convention 108 was the first binding international treaty on data protection and a model for many other data protection regulations. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, in force since 25 May 2018, created a single regulatory framework for handling personal data throughout the entire European Economic Area. Both the Convention 108 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation contain provisions on international data transfer.

The event will explore the challenges of international data transfer from the perspective of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Convention 108.

Speakers:

Horst Seehofer, Federal Minister of the Interior, Building and Community

Andreas Schurig, Commissioner for Data Protection of the Free State of Saxony

Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (tbc)

Dr h. c. Tim Eicke QC, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights

Aleid Wolfsen, Deputy Chair of the European Data Protection Board and Chair of the Dutch data protection supervisory authority

Prof. Dr Dr h. c. Thomas von Danwitz, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union

Alessandra Pierucci, Chair of the Council of Europe Committee of Convention 108 (T-PD)

Monika Grethel, Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of the federal state of Saarland

Registration is possible until 15 January 2021 at www.bmi.bund.de/convention108-en, where you will also find the conference programme and further information.