On Wednesday, April 24, 2019, the new data protection legislation was published in the Czech Collection of Laws and became effective. In doing so, the Czech Republic remedied its legislative deficiency, as it was one of the last EU states lacking the data protection adaptation legislation. (The overview of the current state of GDPR implementation in the Member States can be found here).
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While the GD
PR compliance clock is ticking for companies, EU Member States have also been preparing for the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which will become enforceable on May 25, 2018.
The GDPR will be directly applicable in all EU Member States without the need for implementing national laws. However, apart from the need to establish the supervisory authority, the GDPR provides Member States with the possibility to introduce more specific rules in a number of. This includes the areas of employment, sensitive personal data such as health data and in relation to the role of data protection officers.
Below is a survey of the GDPR guidance by Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in several key Member States.
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