The elections are coming - Regulatory Agenda for the 2019 UK elections

The elections are coming – Regulatory Agenda for the 2019 UK elections

Image showing someone voting in the UK general elections — The UK goes to the polls in a critical election on 12 December 2019

To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a short regulatory update. Since our last update in July, the Prime Minister was unable to fulfill his pledge to take the UK out of the EU by the end of October 2019. As a result, a general election was called for 12 December 2019.

This regulatory agenda is designed to provide an overview of regulatory changes or new regulations recently passed, proposed, or on the agenda which are relevant to key compliance areas of VinciWorks’ clients in the UK. In this election special, the regulatory agenda will focus on the compliance-related manifesto commitments of the main parties.

Parliament was dissolved on 6 November 2019, so there is currently no legislation in progress. However, government consultations remain in progress, as do EU level developments.

This special edition of the Regulatory agenda will cover the following:

Manifesto commitments from key parties
Upcoming legislation
Current open consultations
Closed consultations
EU developments

You can download this special edition of the regulatory agenda here.

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GDPR added a significant compliance burden on DPOs and data processors. Data breaches must be reported to the authorities within 72 hours, each new data processing activity needs to be documented and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) must be carried out for processing that is likely to result in a high risk to individuals. Penalties for breaching GDPR can reach into the tens of millions of Euros.

“In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.”