Important Note

Please study the following information carefully prior to registering for the event:

EuroPriSe's Expert Admission Workshop serves the purpose to train privacy professionals in a way that enables them to act as EuroPriSe Experts (provided they meet all requirements for admission and have successfully managed to complete the homework excercise introduced during the workshop).

Currently, EuroPriSe is in a transition phase: We have been offering our certification services since 2008, but we are currently refining our certification programme to be able to offer an approved certification mechanism (Art. 42 f. GDPR) as soon as possible. However, a lot depends on the European data protection authorities when it comes to to the topics of accreditation and certification criteria. Unfortunately, the authorities have not completed the task of specifying all requirements for these topics yet. This means that at this time, EuroPriSe cannot foresee whether additional refinements of the certification programme will be necessary to gain the status of an approved certification mechanism. In particular, it is not clear yet, what scope exactly the future certification programme will have and what role the EuroPriSe Experts will play.

Under today's programme, the EuroPriSe Experts are competent for the legal and technical evaluation of IT products and IT-based services. According to the current state of the refinement process, the tasks of the EuroPriSe Experts will change in the future: The experts' responsibility will be to support the seal applicant in drafting a self-contained and meaningful target of evaluation (ToE) and to conduct a maturity assessment of the specified ToE. They will also be entitled to provide consultancy to the seal applicant on how to meet the certification requirements. The EuroPriSe Certification Authority, on the other hand, will be competent for both the evaluation of products and services and the validation of the evaluation results / the certification decision.

During the workshop in Athens, EuroPriSe will train the participants in a way that it deems most appropriate in light of the (then) status quo of the refinement of the certification programme / process towards the approval of the certification programme pursuant to Art. 42 f. GDPR. Participants will be able to complete the expert admission procedure and to be admitted as EuroPriSe Experts subsequent to the workshop. However, if the certifcation programme in general and the role of the EuroPriSe Experts in particular should be subject to major changes after the workshop, (successful) participants might be required to undergo additional training and/or to demonstrate that they meet additional requirements regarding proficiency, reliability and liability insurance to uphold their status as EuroPriSe Experts. 

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you should have any questions regarding this issue.