Channel Islands Brussels Office (CIBO)

New data protection laws apply in the Channel Islands as of Friday 25 May 2018.  The new legislation in Guernsey and Jersey provides a level of protection for personal data across the Channel Islands that is essentially equivalent to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  The legislation also provides …

On 9 March 2018 senior officials from the Guernsey and Jersey governments held a meeting in Brussels with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Justice and Consumers (DG JUST) to discuss data protection issues. Guernsey and Jersey are among the small group of non-EU countries that are the subject of …

  On 7-8 March 2018 the Jersey Minister for External Relations, Senator Sir Philip Bailhache, visited Brussels.  Senator Bailhache met Danuta Hübner MEP, the Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) for an exchange of views on the Channel Islands’ relations with the EU and the impact …