Event alert: The new mechanism for international data transfers – APEC's CBPRs demystified

On Friday 3 October, Fieldfisher will host an afternoon event entitled "The new mechanism for international data transfers – APEC's CBPRs demystified" at our new offices in London.The event is On Friday 3 October, Fieldfisher will host an afternoon event entitled "The new mechanism for international data transfers – APEC's CBPRs demystified" at our new offices in London.

The event is designed to demonstrate how Cross Border Privacy Rules ("CBPRs") and Binding Corporate Rules ("BCRs") can be utilised to facilitate global data protection compliance. Hazel Grant, Fieldfisher's new Head of Privacy, will chair the event which will also feature presentations from Anick Fortin-Cousens of IBM and Myriam Gufflet of the French data protection regulator ("CNIL").

• Ms Fortin-Cousens, leader of IBM's Corporate Privacy Office and IBM's CPO for Canada, Latin America and MEA, will provide a practical insight into CBPR. Earlier this year IBM became the first organisation to obtain Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's ("APEC") CBPR certification.
• Ms Gufflet, BCR Division Manager at the CNIL, will tell us about the potential interoperability between BCRs and CBPRs. The CNIL have been closely involved in the work of the joint EU-APEC committee on this topic and was appointed as the Article 29 Working Party's rapporteur in this matter.

Networking drinks will follow the event and will allow attendees to meet privacy, e-commerce and technology law experts from a number of European countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK) who form the Ecomlex network (www.ecomlex.com).