The pact allows firms to transfer data from the EU to America if they provide safeguards equivalent to those required by the EU's data-protection directive (hence "safe harbour").

该协议允诺，如果企业能够提供满足欧盟数据转移指令要求的安全保护措施(即“安全港”)，则可以将数据从欧盟转移到美国。

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The pact allows firms to transfer data from the EU to America if they provide safeguards equivalent to those required by the EU's data-protection directive (hence "safe harbour").

这个协议允许公司将数据从欧盟转移到美国，如果他们能够通过欧盟数据保护指令为这些需求提供安全保护等价物的话(因此叫安全港)。

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Sooner or later, the policies motivating the EU Data Protection Directive will prove to be counter-productive and regressive.

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Rights of access, rectification and erasure all exist under our current rules, the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive.

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The investigations were overseen by the Article 29 Working Party, a group of representatives from each member state tasked with promoting the application of the EU's Data Protection Directive.

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