Market Arrangements Code Change Proposal: Ref CPM033– Improved process for managing Data Subject Rights Requests
| Date | 09 March 2021 |
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Market Arrangements Code Change Proposal – Ref CPM033
Modification
proposal
Market Arrangements Code Change Proposal – CPM033 – Improved
process for managing Data Subject Rights Requests
Decision
The Authority has decided to approve this Change Proposal with
modifications
Publication date
9 March 2021
Implementation
date
14 May 2021
Background
At the end of the Brexit transition period, the provisions of the General Data
Protection Regulation
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EU 2016/679 (GDPR), which came into force on 25 May
2018 were incorporated directly into UK law
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, with some technical amendments
so that it works in a UK-only context. The ‘UK GDPR’, sits alongside the Data
Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).
The Panel established the GDPR Issues Committee (the ‘Committee’) to assess
the compatibility of the Wholesale Retail Code (WRC) and Market Arrangements
Code (MAC)
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against the DPA 2018 and GDPR, in order to determine what
changes would be needed to enable industry compliance
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As part of its original recommendations to the Panel in 2018, the Committee
noted that whilst the existing disputes processes in the WRC would apply to
disputes regarding the then newly inserted data protection provisions, the
timescales in those processes did not align with the timeframes imposed under
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GDPR Regulations: http s://eur-lex.europa.eu/l egal-content/EN/TXT/P DF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679
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See the Data Protection , Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amend ments etc) (EU Exit) Regulati ons 2019
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The terms used in this doc ument are those defined in the MAC
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The Committee’s remit is unaffected by the implementation of the UK GDPR, which is inco rporated into the MAC by
reference to the definition of ‘Data Protection Laws’.
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