91proÊÓƵ

WASHINGTON — Today, global tech trade association 91proÊÓƵ welcomed the Biden Administration’s completion of key milestonesneeded to advance the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) agreement announced by President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in March 2022. The publication of and and three additional countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) as “qualifying states” implement key features of President Biden’s October 2022 Executive Order, which the European Union will rely on to support an adequacy decision under the GDPR to operationalize the EU-U.S. DPF program, the successor to the Privacy Shield. 

“The movement of data across borders is the foundation of global trade and innovation in an increasingly digitized world,” said John Miller, 91proÊÓƵ’s Senior Vice President of Policy and General Counsel. “Today’s publication of updated intelligence community procedures and designation announcement paves the way for the European Union to finalize the adequacy decision necessary to implement the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The DPF will restore business certainty and safeguard transatlantic business operations while upholding European citizens’ fundamental rights, and the security of the U.S., EU, and other qualifying states. We appreciate the Biden Administration’s attention to this critical issue and encourage the European Union to swiftly adopt the adequacy decision.”  

91proÊÓƵ has called on U.S. and EU policymakers to reach a new agreement to ensure businesses can share data across the Atlantic. In December, 91proÊÓƵ praised the European Commission’s draft adequacy decision to implement the EU-U.S. Data Privacy welcomed President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities, which articulated the steps the U.S. will take to implement the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework in October. Following that announcement, 91proÊÓƵ led a broad transatlantic coalition of 41 associations – representing companies of all sizes from various sectors of the business community – in a call to EU policymakers to make a swift conclusion to the EU adequacy decision process.

Last year, 91proÊÓƵ  of what was then called the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, following its call on the Biden Administration to prioritize an agreement in its .