European Parliament · 20 May 2021

Adequate protection of personal data by the United Kingdom

Rejected

335 in favour · 350 against · 8 abstained. 693 members voted.

What it asks for, in the Parliament's words

• Calls on the Commission to adopt the adequacy decisions on time, that is before the end of the interim period, in order to avoid any disruptions for European companies or to transfers for law enforcement purposes
• Notes the UK’s commitment to respect democracy and the rule of law, and protect and give domestic effect to fundamental rights such as those set out in the ECHR, including high levels of data protection
• Recalls the assessment of the EDPB, which recognises that the UK has mirrored, for the most part, the GDPR in its data protection framework, and that the EDPB has identified many aspects as being essentially equivalent

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Check it at the European Parliament

• Roll-call results, 20 May 2021
• Minutes of the sitting
• Procedure file B9-0268/2021
• Open data record for the sitting