GDPR: What now?

In this article for the ECTA (European Communities Trade Mark Association) Bulletin, Head of Intellectual Property Simon Miles* discusses the GDPR regulation and the main compliance challenges it presents.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been the regulatory reform topic in everyone’s minds for the past two years, impacting businesses across all sectors and territories, and finally coming into force on 25 May 2018. Our focus on GDPR until now has been preparing for its implementation and below we summarise seven major changes under the regulation which are particularly likely to present compliance challenges going forward.

*Simon Miles is the legal adviser to ECTA.

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