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European Parliament set to approve EU data protection law

April 13, 2016

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Europe’s much-awaited data protection regulation has received the green light from the European Parliament’s civil liberties (LIBE) committee.

The LIBE committee voted to adopt the final agreement on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with a majority of 50 for, compared with three against and one abstention. This leaves the way clear for the European Parliament to rubber stamp the law on Thursday 14 April 2016.

Jan Philipp Albrecht, the German Green MEP who spent the past five years steering the law through endless Parliament amendments and negotiations with EU member states, said it was a “success for citizens to have data protection as a ‘made in Europe’ trademark”.

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