Key Points

• The EU has had a normative impact on the development of personal data protection legislation in Turkey and the conditionality mechanism played a key role.
• For the EU, the alignment of personal data protection with the EU Acquis constitutes a fundamental rights concern that needs to be addressed for continued cooperation between the two jurisdictions, but the reforms in Turkey have been mostly motivated by short term incentives.
• An adequacy decision on Turkey seems unlikely and some of the promised incentives, such as visa liberalization, have not been granted because of the EU’s broader concerns relating to the rule of law and to fundamental rights. Given the extensive parallels between the two legal frameworks, this outcome could also discourage other non-EU states from following the EU model.
• This case study raises concerns about the suitability of the EU conditionality mechanism for promoting legislative reforms in the area of data protection law, which requires a well-functioning liberal democracy to be effective.

中文翻译：

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欧盟的规范权：以土耳其数据保护法为例

关键点

• 欧盟对土耳其个人数据保护立法的发展产生了规范性影响，条件性机制发挥了关键作用。
• 对于欧盟而言，将个人数据保护与EU Acquis结合起来构成了基本权利问题，这是两个司法管辖区之间继续合作所需要解决的问题，但是土耳其的改革主要是出于短期激励措施。
• 关于土耳其的充分性决定似乎不太可能，而且由于欧盟对法治和基本权利的广泛关注，某些许诺的激励措施（如签证自由化）未获批准。考虑到两个法律框架之间的广泛相似性，这一结果也可能使其他非欧盟国家不愿遵循欧盟模式。
• 此案例研究引起了人们对欧盟条件机制在数据保护法领域促进立法改革的适用性的关注，这需要运作良好的自由民主制度才能有效。