In late 2020 ASR participated in two groundbreaking virtual summits on Digital Services Taxation. The US-based Coalition of Services Industries hosted a three-day forum, during which ASR Director Jane Drake-Brockman hosted a panel with two experts: Patrick Low, Fellow at the Asia Global Institute, and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Director at the European Centre for International Political Economy. […]
Archives for March 2021
European Commission reply to ITI data flows letter
ASR recently joined a multi-industry coalition led by ITI to issue a statement on European data flows in the wake of the Schrems II judgment. A reply was received from the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, in which he argues that despite creating challenges for businesses, the judgment is flexible. As Reynders writes: On […]
ASR joins multiassociation letter raising concerns with European data flows
The Australian Services Roundtable has joined a coalition led by global tech trade coalition ITI to raise concerns about cross-border data flows in and out of the European Union. The letter concerns the European Data Protection Board’s draft recommendations in the wake of the so-called “Schrems II” case (C311/18) which invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield […]