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I thought the whole point of the EU having laws like this was to avoid having a ton of variations by country.

sfifs 8y ago
The whole point of EU is to garner trade advantage by negotiating as a block instead of as small countries when they saw large countries like US, USSR and China get negotiating power. It is also to not have any tarrifs and free movement of labor internally. Everything else has been iffy at best. EU is not a federal nation like US or India
- thefounder 8y ago
  There is a EU law(such GDRP) that all member states must transpose into their state legislation. A citizen of a "foreign" member state enjoys the same rights as the "local" citizen. The point if EU is/was to achieve an "ever closer union" so that war between European states would never happen again. It's not just an economic bloc. Btw the immigration is the main issue which has nothing to do with trading.
thefounder 8y ago
The European Court of Justice has the final say. As far as I know the local(supreme) courts ask the ECJ for an opinion if they think their local law could be incompatible the the EU law. The EU laws such GDRP must be transposed by the menber states but they may have slight variations(i.e. the amount of fines)
Aengeuad 8y ago
The GDPR does remove variation between countries, before the GDPR each of the 28 member states would have had their own data protection laws and while you wouldn't have had to comply with all of them the only law you generally have to comply with under the GDPR is... the GDPR, plus or minus some minor opt-in or opt-outs that some member states may choose. It's one piece of legislation that is a hell of a lot more navigable and accessible than 28 different pieces of legislation. What the poster above is lamenting over is that each member state is in charge of their own investigatory authority, and this makes a lot of sense, if you have a data leak that affects only Spanish citizens you wouldn't want the investigation being carried out by a country like Sweden or even by the EU itself. However if a data leak affects multiple member state citizens each of those member states are invited to and can enter a joint investigation. The issue they believe is that France may have a stricter interpretation of the law than a country like Poland which may make cooperating with the law more difficult as you don't know how strict to be, and while this certainly is going to be the case it's not so different from any other facet of life - In the US you may favour a certain state to be prosecuted in, you may prefer to have a different prosecutor or judge, etc.

The whole point of EU is to garner trade advantage by negotiating as a block instead of as small countries when they saw large countries like US, USSR and China get negotiating power. It is also to not have any tarrifs and free movement of labor internally. Everything else has been iffy at best. EU is not a federal nation like US or India

thefounder 8y ago
There is a EU law(such GDRP) that all member states must transpose into their state legislation. A citizen of a "foreign" member state enjoys the same rights as the "local" citizen. The point if EU is/was to achieve an "ever closer union" so that war between European states would never happen again. It's not just an economic bloc. Btw the immigration is the main issue which has nothing to do with trading.

thefounder 8y ago

The European Court of Justice has the final say. As far as I know the local(supreme) courts ask the ECJ for an opinion if they think their local law could be incompatible the the EU law. The EU laws such GDRP must be transposed by the menber states but they may have slight variations(i.e. the amount of fines)

Aengeuad 8y ago

The GDPR does remove variation between countries, before the GDPR each of the 28 member states would have had their own data protection laws and while you wouldn't have had to comply with all of them the only law you generally have to comply with under the GDPR is... the GDPR, plus or minus some minor opt-in or opt-outs that some member states may choose. It's one piece of legislation that is a hell of a lot more navigable and accessible than 28 different pieces of legislation. What the poster above is lamenting over is that each member state is in charge of their own investigatory authority, and this makes a lot of sense, if you have a data leak that affects only Spanish citizens you wouldn't want the investigation being carried out by a country like Sweden or even by the EU itself. However if a data leak affects multiple member state citizens each of those member states are invited to and can enter a joint investigation. The issue they believe is that France may have a stricter interpretation of the law than a country like Poland which may make cooperating with the law more difficult as you don't know how strict to be, and while this certainly is going to be the case it's not so different from any other facet of life - In the US you may favour a certain state to be prosecuted in, you may prefer to have a different prosecutor or judge, etc.