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EU directives such as GDPR come into power by being localised and enacted, ie made into UK law. The data protection act 2018 will cover us up until it’s reverse
by tobylane 6y ago
EU directives such as GDPR come into power by being localised and enacted, ie made into UK law. The data protection act 2018 will cover us up until it’s reversed, which is what some of us fear.
- detaro 6y agoThe R in GDPR is not for directive. As a regulation, it applies directly.
- Silhouette 6y agoFYI, that's not quite correct. The EU makes laws in several ways. A directive is, as you said, a measure that individual member states then incorporate into their own national law to give it legal weight. But the GDPR is, as its name suggests, a regulation, which means it carries legal weight immediately and in its own right across the entire EU. The UK's position is strange because of Brexit, but it seems the practical position of all recent governments has been that existing EU laws should be transposed into UK national laws where necessary and with the required changes to make sense, until such time as our national authorities might decide to deviate from them. Primary legislation has already been made to that effect. The big question is what "that effect" actually is, given the huge volume of legislation affected and the potential ambiguity in what changes are required for any given law of EU origin to continue to make sense in a post-Brexit UK.
- Fl8ixIDN 6y agoNo need to speculate. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/419/made https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/419/made
- tobylane 6y agoI was thinking of this, a year earlier. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/part/1/enacted https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/part/1/enacted