--- title: 'GDPR/Brexit - Brexit, GDPR, and the Timeline for Data Breaches' date: '2021-01-19' year: 2021 lang: en type: post wp_slug: brexit-gdpr-and-the-timeline-for-data-breaches wp_url: 'http://armingaud-avocat.fr/en/brexit-gdpr-and-the-timeline-for-data-breaches/' categories: - Data Breach - Data Transfer - Europe - Privacy tags: - site Language: English created: '2021-01-19' modified: '2021-01-19' published: '2021-01-19' --- As of 1 January 2021, the Brexit transition period (Transition Period) ended, and the United Kingdom (UK) officially finalized its exit from the European Union (EU) and the 11th-hour commercial agreement (Agreement) should allow for a smoother transition on the data protection front as the [General Data Protection Regulation]() (GDPR) stops being directly applicable to the UK. It also provided the UK with a six-month grace period to hope for an adequacy decision that would allow for the free transfer of personal data from the EU to the UK. As the [European Data Protection Board]() (EDPB) amended on 13 January 2021 its [Brexit communications]()² further to the Agreement (Communications), it only addresses: * The issue of data transfers from the EU to the UK; * The end of the One-Stop-Shop (OSS) mechanism for the UK; and * The need for UK entities that would be subject to GDPR to appoint a representative further to Art. 27 GDPR. However, aside from enacting the end of the OSS and commenting that _“the EDPB has been liaising with the ICO [Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK’s Supervisory Authority] over the past months in order to enable a smooth shift to this new situation by ensuring that the EEA authorities follow a shared and efficient approach in handling the existing complaints and cross-border cases involving the ICO, whilst minimizing delays and possible inconveniences to affected complainants[,]”_  the EDPB did not comment on how such collaboration will effectively play out for companies whose lead Supervisory Authority was the ICO. Read the full article on [Radar First blog]().