Standardization and automation of a transfer impact assessment in regard to the new EU standard contractual clauses

SKW Schwarz already reported that the EU Commission adopted new EU standard contractual clauses for international data transfers on June 4, 2021. These new EU standard contractual clauses can be accessed here. In the above-mentioned article, we already pointed out that a transfer impact assessment is required when utilizing these new EU standard contractual clauses. In the meantime, the Conference of the Independent Data Protection Authorities of the Federation and the States (DSK) has also pointed this out in a press release dated 21 June 2021. In our article linked above, we already recommended to implement a standardized process for conducting and documenting the transfer impact assessment.

This article is about such a transfer impact assessment and how to implement a standardized process.