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EU debuts new digital sovereignty assessment tools | IAPP
The EU Commission has published implementation guidance and assessment tools for its Cloud Sovereignty Framework, used to evaluate cloud providers in the €180m Cloud III tender. The framework measures sovereignty across eight dimensions—strategic, legal, data, operational, supply chain, technology, security and environmental—allowing organisations to benchmark their digital operations against EU standards.
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The Wire takeaway
If you sell cloud, data storage, or infrastructure into EU government or regulated entities, you now have a published scoring rubric: the EU will measure you on eight dimensions, and non-EU ownership or foreign control will cost you points. Benchmark yourself against this framework now—it's already live in procurement, and it will spread to mandatory vendor assessment across the bloc.
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Topics: Cloud Infrastructure · cloud-sovereignty · eu-regulation · procurement · supply-chain · data-residency