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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL Stronger protection, new opportunities - Commission guidance on the direct application of the General Data Protection Regulation as of 25 May 2018 · European Union

The Regulation will further strengthen the EU ability to actively promote its data protection values and facilitate cross border data flows by encouraging the convergence of legal systems globally 16 . EU data protection rules are increasingly recognised at international level as setting out some of the highest standards of data protection in the world. Council of Europe Convention 108, the only legally binding multilateral instrument in the area of personal data protection, is also being modernised. The Commission is working for it to reflect the same principles as those enshrined in the new EU data protection rules and thus help install a uniform set of high data protection standards. The Commission will actively promote the swift adoption of the modernised text of the Convention with a view to the EU becoming a Party to it 17 . The Commission encourages non-EU countries to ratify Council of Europe Convention 108 and its additional Protocol.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.