Certification Process
Europrivacy, the European Data Protection Seal, is more than a certification. It offers a first-class journey to reduce your legal and financial risks, build trust and confidence, and value your compliance with competitive advantages. Our official partners, Online Academy, and Europrivacy Resources & Community website are here to support you and make your journey enjoyable.
Your Smart Journey to Certification
Our process has been designed to be simple, reliable, as well as time and cost efficient:
Select a Target of Evaluation and use the Europrivacy criteria to check and document the compliance of your data processing activities. To complete this step, you can either seek the services of any of the official Europrivacy Consulting Firms and/or Solution Providers or do it yourself, with the support of Europrivacy tools.
A) Global ecosystem of official partners, including solution providers and implementers (consulting and law firms). You can request quotes through our application form.
B) ECCP tools to support you along the way:
- A Welcome Pack : purchase of a Europrivacy Welcome Pack is recommended for Applicants interested in initiating their certification journey. It grants access to a comprehensive set of resources and online services (including all relevant documentation) for a period of three years. It also includes the publication fees for the two first certificates that would be granted to the Applicant upon a successful certification process.
- The Europrivacy Online Academy: the successful completion of the available courses, allows Applicants to autonomously use the certification scheme and understand the criteria that have been designed to document compliance. Welcome Pack includes access to the “Introduction to Europrivacy Course” on the Academy.
- The Europrivacy Community Website : grants Applicants access to a multitude of documents, guidelines and templates that could facilitate the preparation of data processing for certification.
Once you have documented your compliance:
- You select a qualified Certification Body. You can request quotes through our application form or you can directly select and contact a qualified certification bodies of your choice.
- Your selected certification body checks and certifies your data processing and will publish the certificate in the Europrivacy Official Registry of Certicates to enable its authentication.
Once certified, you can take advantage of our online resources and services to enjoy the benefits of your certification. You can:
- Communicate and value your compliance with the templates and guidelines available in in our Community and Resources website.
- Receive updates in case of regulatory changes impacting your certification.
- Engage with other certified companies and service providers.
Each step is supported by dedicated online resources, guidelines, documentation, and templates available on the Europrivacy Resources & Community website. Once the first target of evaluation is documented, a large part of its documentation can be reused for other data processing, making subsequent certifications faster.
DPOs willing to apply the Europrivacy methodology on their own are encouraged to receive training as implementers on the Europrivacy Academy and to join the Europrivacy Resources & Community website as DPO to access the required documentation.
You can complement the Europrivacy certification with the criteria Extensions, which enable to assess and certify compliance with other EU and national regulations. See for more details: Regulatory Extensions and Other Schemes.