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A complex interplay: Focus on the General Data Protection Regulation and the new Federal Data Protection Act
The new Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG-neu) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) come into force on 25 May 2018. This article examines the complex relationship between these two pieces of legislation and assesses the resulting difficulties in their practical application. This is because the nature of the General Data Protection Regulation as a directly applicable regulation, on the one hand, and the numerous enabling clauses it contains – which allow Member States considerable leeway in its implementation – on the other, result in a confusing coexistence of two legal sources relevant to a single area of law. This article examines in more detail how to deal with this in individual cases, focusing on specific areas of practical relevance.
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the full article in the Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel here. (http://www.deutscheranwaltspiegel.de/ein-komplexes-zusammenspiel/)
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