In a November 26 working document, the Article 29 Working Party proposes a procedure to coordinate the approaches among the various EU data protection authorities to use identical contractual clauses (based on the EU Model Clauses) in different Member States. The document contains criteria to be used when deciding which data protection authority should act as lead authority and discusses a system of mutual recognition.

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