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General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or GDPR regime extends the scope of the EU data protection law to all foreign companies processing data of EU residents with severe penalties of up to 4% of worldwide turnover.

It was adopted on 27 April 2016. It becomes enforceable from 25 May 2018, after a two-year transition period.

The GDPR is known as Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) in german, as règlement général sur la protection des données (RGPD) en français, as regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati (RGPD) in italian, as algemene verordening gegevensbescherming (AVG) in dutch, as Ogólne rozporządzenie o ochronie danych (RODO) in polish, as Reglament General de Protecció de Dades in catalan, as Obecné nařízení o ochraně osobních údajů in czech, as Allmänna dataskyddsförordningen in swedish, as Databeskyttelsesforordningen (populært kaldet Persondataforordningen) in danish, as Splošna uredba o varstvu podatkov in slovenian, as Isikuandmete kaitse üldmäärus in estonian, as EU:n yleinen tietosuoja-asetus in finnish and as Personvernforordningen in norwegian.

(source: Swiss Hotel Association)

(source: Ist Ihr Verein für die neue Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) bereit?)

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