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European Commission’s Q&A on the New Standard Contractual Clauses

By Mark A. Prinsley, Oliver Yaros, Dr. Ulrich Worm, Ana Hadnes Bruder, Benjamin Beck & Ondrej Hajda on June 10, 2022
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On 25 May 2022, the European Commission published Questions and Answers for the New  Standard Contractual Clauses to provide practical guidance on the use of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) and help organisations with their General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance efforts. The Commission confirmed that the Q&A document will be regularly updated.

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Photo of Mark A. Prinsley Mark A. Prinsley

Mark Prinsley is a partner and heads the technology practice in the London office, and is a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice. He concentrates on technology transactions, in particular IT projects and outsourcing.

A substantial element of Mark’s practice…

Mark Prinsley is a partner and heads the technology practice in the London office, and is a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice. He concentrates on technology transactions, in particular IT projects and outsourcing.

A substantial element of Mark’s practice involves data protection issues and he has worked extensively for clients in the pensions and financial services sector designing and implementing GDPR compliant systems for the collection and processing of personal data by businesses and related sub-contractors, commercial transactions involving data sharing and reaction to data breach scenarios including managing data breach notifications. Recent projects Mark has worked on involving personal data include working for an automobile manufacturer implementing a connected vehicle programme globally, a supplier of facial recognition technology on methods of marketing that technology in Europe in compliance with data protection laws and for an insurtech business licensing technology and services to enable life insurers to underwrite life cover for diabetics using AI.

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Photo of Oliver Yaros Oliver Yaros

Oliver Yaros is a partner in the Intellectual Property & IT Group as well as the Technology & IP Transactions and Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practices of the London office of Mayer Brown. He advises clients on technology and outsourcing transactions with a…

Oliver Yaros is a partner in the Intellectual Property & IT Group as well as the Technology & IP Transactions and Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practices of the London office of Mayer Brown. He advises clients on technology and outsourcing transactions with a particular focus on fintech and digital transformation projects, as well as clients operating within a broad range of sectors on data protection matters and cybersecurity incidents, intellectual property transactions and related issues.

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Photo of Dr. Ulrich Worm Dr. Ulrich Worm

Ulrich Worm is a partner in the Frankfurt office of Mayer Brown and heads the German Intellectual Property practice. His practice focuses on technology related advice.

Ulrich advises clients in IP related matters, including patent, trade secrets, design right, trademark and copyright matters…

Ulrich Worm is a partner in the Frankfurt office of Mayer Brown and heads the German Intellectual Property practice. His practice focuses on technology related advice.

Ulrich advises clients in IP related matters, including patent, trade secrets, design right, trademark and copyright matters as well as on licensing, co-operation and other technology transfer agreements. He represents clients in patent infringement and nullity proceedings and in trade secrets litigation cases before courts in Germany. In addition to litigating IP cases before German courts, he coordinates pan-European and cross-Atlantic litigation cases. Further to his IP litigation practice, Ulrich advises on patent related matters such as patent license and other technology transfer agreements and is experienced in fighting counterfeiting of patent, design right and trademark protected products.

His practice further covers IT-related matters, including advising on cloud services, software licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, software development projects, e-commerce, and related data protection and privacy questions.

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Photo of Ana Hadnes Bruder Ana Hadnes Bruder

Ana Hadnes Bruder is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Frankfurt office and an active member of the global Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice. She is also a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property practice. Ana advises clients on data privacy and cybersecurity matters…

Ana Hadnes Bruder is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Frankfurt office and an active member of the global Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice. She is also a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property practice. Ana advises clients on data privacy and cybersecurity matters, including preparing for and reacting to cyber-attacks, assessing and making required data breach notifications, analyzing data protection implications of new products and tools and providing strategic advice with a focus on cross-border data processing. Ana further advises on Technology Transactions including cloud services, data and software licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, software development projects, e-commerce, and related Cybersecurity & Data Privacy questions.

Ana is a registered lawyer in Germany and Brazil and has ten years of international experience as legal counsel in Brazil, France and Germany. Ana started her career at Mayer Brown in the Dispute Resolution practice where she represented clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings involving complex commercial, intellectual property and liability matters.

Before joining Mayer Brown, Ana gained experience representing foreign clients in judicial proceedings in Brazil and also worked as in-house counsel for a leading French company in Paris.

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Photo of Benjamin Beck Benjamin Beck

Benjamin Beck is an associate in Mayer Brown’s Düsseldorf office and a member of the Intellectual Property practice.

Publications

Post GDPR Enforcement in Germany — A Sneak Peek, in: Privacy & Data Protection Journal (PDP), 2019, No. 5, p. 16-17, with Dr. Ulrich…

Benjamin Beck is an associate in Mayer Brown’s Düsseldorf office and a member of the Intellectual Property practice.

Publications

Post GDPR Enforcement in Germany — A Sneak Peek, in: Privacy & Data Protection Journal (PDP), 2019, No. 5, p. 16-17, with Dr. Ulrich Worm

Annotation to Higher Regional Court of Berlin (Kammergericht Berlin), Germany, Judgment of 25 September 2018 — (4) 161 Ss 28/18 (35/18), in: Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW), 2019, No. 1, p. 42-46, with Dr. Dominik König

Die Wirksamkeit von sog. „Nicht-Einsatz-Klauseln“ für den Wettbewerb der Fußball-Bundesliga, in: Zeitschrift für Sport und Recht (SpuRt), 2019, No. 1, p. 2-6, with Patrick Schulz

Bitcoin and Money, in: Leslie Thompson, Jean-Toussaint Pindi, Stephanie Amar-Flood (ed.), Anglais appliqué: Economie, Gestion, Droit, AES, 4th ed. 2018, p. 44-45

GDPR Implications for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, in: SA Financial Regulation Journal, 19.06.2018, with Dr. Ulrich Worm

Yoga and Copyright, in: WIPO Magazine, 2017, No. 3, p. 44-45, with Konstantin von Werder

Annotation to Administrative Court of Frankfurt am Main (Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt), Germany, Judgment of 31 October 2016 — 1 K 2903/15.F, in: Kommunikation & Recht (K&R), 2017, No. 2, p. 142-144, with Dr. Dominik König

IP scenarios in a Brexit world, in: World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR), 18.07.2016, with Dr. Ulrich Worm

Судебная практика в Германии / Court practice in Germany, in: Интеллектуальная собственность Казахстана (Intellectual property of Kazakhstan), 2016, No. 1, p. 13-16, with Ana Elisa Bruder and Konstantin von Werder

Oktoberfest for the UPC?, in: World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR), 24.03.2016, with Dr. Ulrich Worm

Die immaterialgüterrechtliche Schutzfähigkeit von „Affen-Selfies“, in: Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht (ZUM), Vol. 60 (2016), No. 1, p. 34-38, with Dominik König

Bitcoins als Gegenstand von sekundären Leistungspflichten. Erfassung dem Grunde und der Höhe nach, in: Archiv für die civilistische Praxis (AcP), Vol. 215 (2015), No. 5, p. 655-682, with Dominik König

Annotation to CJEU, Judgment of 22 October 2015 — C‑264/14 — David Hedqvist, in: Umsatzsteuer-Rundschau (UR), 2015, No. 22, p. 864-871, with Dominik König

Court considers likelihood of confusion between word marks using same letters in different order, in: World Trademark Review Daily, 25.09.2015, with Konstantin von Werder

Do Bitcoins Fulfil the Classic Economic Functions of Money? An Analysis and its Legal Implications, published online on lichter-filmfest.de on 09.03.2015

Bitcoins als Geld im Rechtssinne, in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW), Vol. 68 (2015), No. 9, p. 580-586

Bitcoin: Der Versuch einer vertragstypologischen Einordnung von kryptographischem Geld, in: JuristenZeitung (JZ), Vol. 70 (2015), No. 3, p. 130-138, with Dominik König

Klinische und rechtliche Aspekte einer Abstinenzkontrolle unter besonderer Berücksichtigung kontinuierlicher transdermaler Alkoholmessung, in: Blutalkohol – Alcohol, Drugs and Behavior (BA), Vol. 50 (2013), No. 4, p. 153-167

Elektronische Fußfessel – Fluch oder Segen der Kriminalpolitik?, in: Schriftenreihe der Stiftung der Hessischen Rechtsanwaltschaft, Vol. 2 (2011), p. 65-94

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