No 10 (December 97/Décembre 97/Dezember 97)

On December 3 the eighth meeting of the Data Protection Working Party was held in Brussels. During the meeting the Working Party further discussed the matter of data transfer to non-EU countries, on the basis of a number of fictitious test cases. The Data Protection Commissioners decided to work closely together in assessing the adequacy of the data protection in non-EU countries and on developing ways and means to do this effectively and consistently in all Member States.

In connection with this further work will be done on:

• the contribution which industry self-regulation can make to providing an adequate level of data protection in third countries
• and the substantive and procedural questions of recognising the adequacy of protection in relation to certain transfers (white list).

Finally the Working Party adopted a discussion document on notification and transparency of processing, which is aimed at facilitating the further development of consistent procedures for the notification of trans border data processing operations.

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