Impact of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR to come under focus in January at a Regional workshop in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its impact on companies and public authorities located outside of the EU will come under focus in January at a regional workshop in Bridgetown, Barbados.
A TAIEX-Partnership Instrument Workshop on the EU GDPR will be held on 29-30 January 2020. The workshop is being held to build awareness on the GDPR. It also seeks to clarify the GDPR’s extra-territorial application on private sector operators and national/regional administrations that process and hold personal data of EU citizens.
In May 2018, the GDPR entered into force as a tool to harmonise data privacy laws across Europe. It is aimed at protecting the data privacy of EU citizens and triggering more secure individual data privacy among organisations which work with the personal data of EU citizens.
At the two-day workshop, special emphasis will be placed on the application scope of the GDPR in the economies of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Attention will be placed on matters such as data protection policy and law in the Caribbean; digital trade and its impact on trade in services.
The Delegation of the EU to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean States, the OECS and CARICOM/CARIFORUM in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Internationale Zusammenabeit GmbH (GIZ), Caribbean Export and the Barbados Coalition of Service Industries will host the workshop.
