International and EU data protection law

Essential 2019

Codes

International and EU Data

Protection Law

Around the world, data protection law is a fast-growing field of law. This edition constitutes the first-ever collection of both international and EU hard and soft law on the matter. It provides légal practitioners, authorities, policy makers, scholars and students worldwide and in Europe with an accurate, up-to-date and forward-looking compilation of essential texts on data protection.

The volume comprises key international legal instruments from a broad range of both global and regional organisations and networks, including the United Nations (UN), Interpol, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Council of Europe (CoE), the African Union (AU), the Asia-Pacific Economie Cooperation (APEC) and the Ibero-American Data Protection Network (RIPD), and extends to treaties, agreements or transfer mechanisms on other multilateral or even bilateral levels, including on Transatlantic level.

In addition to data protection-specific legislation, the elaborate EU section features subsections for primary legislation and for instruments with data protection-relevance in a series of thematic areas, including : Schengen ; Europol ; Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor's Office ; other coopération in criminal or customs matters ; asylum, migration, borders and travel ; overarching area of Freedom, Security and Justice issues ; cyber-security, and the internai market, the financial system and taxation. It also includes the latest versions of pending legislative proposals.