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The transfer of work from the office to the home office requires clear rules. Written agreements with the employee specifically for the home office are a good idea. Many of these agreements also include a right of access for the employer. How should the employer's right of access be contractually formulated? And what are the peculiarities of the Corona pandemic? We clarify all this in this article!

In practice, the Joint Controller Agreement (JCA) still seems complicated and cumbersome to many managers. But this is not the case: by carefully structuring the agreement, responsible companies can reap many benefits, realise efficiency gains through forward-looking process design and implement effective risk management. In this article, we will use some examples from the healthcare sector to show you what is meant by shared responsibility, what provisions need to be included in the JCA, and how a JCA can be designed in a way that is meaningful and profitable for responsible companies.

If a group of companies acts as a single entity, both externally and internally, transferring data between its individual companies may not appear to pose a particular problem. However, the GDPR does not recognise the group as a separate data controller. This means that intra-group data transfers are not automatically legal. In this article, we provide an overview of the main issues, requirements and possible solutions in the area of intra-group data transfers.