Abstract

The invalidation of the Privacy Shield has shown how serious the CJEU was with regards to the protection of EU citizens’ data. It may not have created a legal vacuum, the GDPR offering different alternative possibilities including standard contractual clauses and binding corporate rules. But it certainly has opened a phase of uncertainties and legal complexity which is not favourable to a smooth and continuous flow of data across the Atlantic. In this chapter we use soft law, defined as an act comprising a soft dimension with regard to either the obligation or the enforcement mechanism. We argued that the adequacy Decision of the Commission -a hard law act- suffers from a major weakness derived from the softness of the guarantees provided by the US government. Changes proposed resulting in the hardening of EU-US arrangements through a new Framework and with a Review Court, may dramatically evolve the partnership. Apart from the hardening of EU-US arrangements, the strengthening of US domestic rules on data protection could also contribute to the securing of transatlantic data flows through hard law legalisation line with the CJEU vision.

Publication Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter due to be published by Routledge in The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Relations on June 2023, available online:https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Transatlantic-Relations/Fahey/p/book/9781032255347
Publisher Keywords:	EU-US; Transatlantic; Soft law; Privacy Shield; Governance
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Departments:	The City Law School > Academic Programmes

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