On 20 April, the German federal and state commissioners passed a resolution calling for the federal legislator to allow data protection authorities to have “a right to legal action” against the European Commission’s adequacy decisions, DataGuidance reports. "The initiative by Hamburg and the support by the regulators hark back to the Schrems decision of the CJEU," said GÖRG’s Jochen Lehmann. He called the resolution “bound to fail,” saying that “instead, the commissioners will have to think how they get to court themselves so that the matter can be referred to the CJEU. They might prohibit someone from a data transfer on the basis of a EU Commission's decision and, if that party goes to court, they may put the matter before the CJEU."
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