CHAPTER 3: THE REGULATION
The GDPR was adopted by the EU Council and Parliament in April 2016, and will take effect in every EU member state in May 2018. As of the time of writing this book, there is a bit less than two years in which organisations can prepare to meet its requirements. The GDPR is a long document, though, and sets out requirements for organisations and for Member States, and makes provision for the creation of an EU Data Protection Board. This chapter aims to provide a quick overview of the key points that you need to be aware of in order to prepare for compliance.
The full text of the GDPR can be found on the EUR-Lex database (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/) in every language of the European Union.22 National supervisory authorities ...
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