Hard Brexit Impact Analysis

Page 53 of 106 Category If no agreement is reached: Consequence EU Document Internet Data Protection Safeguards may be provided for by: * Standard data protection clauses : the Commission has adopted three sets of model clauses which are available on the Commission’s website; * Binding corporate rules : legally binding data protection rules approved by the competent data protection authority which apply within a corporate group; * Approved Codes of Conduct together with binding and enforceable commitments of the controller or processor in the third country; * Approved certification mechanisms together with binding and enforceable commitments of the controller or processor in the third country. WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM FROM THE UNION AND EU RULES IN THE FIELD OF DATA PROTECTION Internet Domain Names As of the withdrawal date the EU regulatory framework for the .eu Top Level Domain will no longer apply to the United Kingdom WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EU RULES ON .EU DOMAIN NAMES Internet Domain Names REGISTRATION AND RENEWAL OF DOMAIN NAMES: As of the withdrawal date, undertakings and organisations that are established in the United Kingdom but not in the EU and natural persons who reside in the United Kingdom will no longer be eligible to register .eu domain names or, if they are .eu registrants, to renew .eu domain names registered before the withdrawal date. UK businesses, people and residents will no longer be able to register or renew a .EU domain. WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EU RULES ON .EU DOMAIN NAMES Internet Domain Names Registrars: As of the withdrawal date Accredited .eu Registrars will not be entitled to process any request for the registration of or for renewing registrations of .eu domain names by those UK undertakings, organisations and persons. Registrars will have to ignore all new or renewal requests from UK businesses, people and residents WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EU RULES ON .EU DOMAIN NAMES Internet Domain Names REVOCATION OF REGISTERED DOMAIN NAMES: As of the withdrawal date and as a result of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom, a holder of a domain name who no longer fulfil the general EU eligibility criteria, the Registry for .eu will be entitled to revoke such domain name on its own initiative and without submitting the dispute to any extrajudicial settlement of conflicts. .EU domains presently owned by UK businesses, people and residents who no longer are compliant with EU regulations can have their domain rescinded without notice WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EU RULES ON .EU DOMAIN NAMES