Counsel confirms the European Commission has adopted an adequacy decision for the destination country where a SaaS vendor stores EU customer data. What does that adequacy finding primarily mean for the transfer?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
An adequacy decision is like a trusted-country passport stamp: the EU has judged protections essentially equivalent, so you usually don’t need a separate SCC or BCR for that hop. The GDPR still sticks to the exporter’s own processing. It is not a free pass to ignore European rules altogether.
Full Explanation
Article 45 adequacy decisions allow transfers to the covered third country without requiring additional appropriate safeguards such as SCCs or BCRs for that transfer. Adequacy does not erase the exporter’s ongoing GDPR obligations for its own processing. SCCs are not mandatory on top of adequacy for the same transfer path, and adequacy can cover private-sector destinations depending on the decision’s scope—not only public authorities.