In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), contractual clauses ensuring appropriate data protection safeguards can be used as a basis for data transfers from the EU to third countries. These include standard contractual clauses (SCCs) – that have been “pre-approved” by the European Commission.
On 4 June 2021, the European Commission updated the SCCs that were adopted under Data Protection Directive 95/46. The new SCCs can be downloaded at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc/standard-contractual-clauses-international-transfers_en/.