Certification Mechanism
What is Certification Mechanism?
A voluntary process under GDPR through which organizations demonstrate compliance with data protection requirements through approved certification bodies.
Terms that appear alongside certification mechanism
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as certification mechanism. The number is how many controls name both.
- data protection 7 shared controls
- certification 7 shared controls
- code of conduct 7 shared controls
- binding corporate rules 6 shared controls
- standard contractual clauses 5 shared controls
- consent 5 shared controls
- supervisory authority 5 shared controls
- gdpr 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern certification mechanism
What the standards actually require on certification mechanism
Requirements naming certification mechanism across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure, and to be able to demonstrate, that processing is performed in accordance with the Regulation, taking into account the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing and the risks of var...
GDPR-Art.24 · Responsibility of the controller →Articles 20-21 of the Jordan PDPL govern cross-border transfers of personal data closely modelled on EU GDPR Chapter V. (1) Article 20 General Prohibition: Cross-border transfer prohibited unless one of these grounds applies (a) Adequacy Determination by Counc...
JO-PDPL-Cross-Border-Transfer-Article20-21-Adequacy-Consent-Public-Interest-Performance-Council-Approval · Jordan PDPL Cross-Border Transfer + Articles 20-21 + Adequacy + Consent + Public Interest + Performance + Council Approval + Standard Contractual Clauses + Binding Corporate Rules + Derogations + GCC Coordination →Latvia PDPL supervisory authority regime. Section 35 Powers of the Data State Inspectorate - DVI investigative + corrective + authorisation + advisory powers (GDPR Article 58 implementation): investigations (notifications + audits + on-site inspection + access...
LV-PDPL-Supervisory-Authority-Data-State-Inspectorate-DVI-Powers-S35-Codes-of-Conduct-S55-Certification-S45-Complaints-S40 · Latvia PDPL Supervisory Authority + DVI Powers + S.35 + Codes of Conduct + Certification + Complaints →North Macedonia PDPL MKPDP-8 + Articles 47-52 Cross-Border Data Transfers. Transfer of personal data outside North Macedonia permitted only where: (1) destination jurisdiction provides adequate level of protection (Article 47) - AZLP follows EU adequacy decisi...
MKPDP-Cross-Border-Transfers-MKPDP-8-Articles-47-52-Adequacy-SCC-BCR-EU-Schrems-Convention-108 · North Macedonia PDPL Cross-Border + MKPDP-8 + Articles 47-52 + EU Adequacy →Ecuador LOPDP Articles 59-65 Cross-Border Data Transfers (Transferencias Internacionales). Transfer of personal data outside Ecuador permitted only where: (1) destination jurisdiction provides adequate level of protection (Article 59 SPDP assessment + adequacy...
LOPDP-EC-Cross-Border-Transfers-Articles-59-65-Adequacy-SCC-BCR-EU-Schrems-LatAm-CBPR-Andean-Community · Ecuador LOPDP Cross-Border + Articles 59-65 + Adequacy + Andean Community + LatAm →Provides for the Commissioner's annual report, compliance audits of controllers and processors, the issue of codes and guidelines, and certification mechanisms.
MU-DPA17-s45-48 · Annual report, compliance audit, codes and certification →Questions people ask about certification mechanism
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