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Transfer impact assessment (TIA)

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The data exporter's assessment of whether the law of a third country lets the importer honour the transfer tool, such as standard contractual clauses, and which supplementary measures are needed 1. Remote inference endpoints and vendor telemetry outside the EEA can trigger it.

Developed in
ch. 19, Transfers, remote inference and TIAs
Chapters
ch. 19, Privacy & AI
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

2 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

  • Importer

    Under the EU AI Act, a person established in the Union who places on the market an AI system bearing the name or trademark of a provider established outside…

Sources

  1. [1] Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data (version 2.0). European Data Protection Board. 2021-06-18. https://www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/recommendations/recommendations-012020-measures-supplement-transfer_en (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Transfer impact assessment (TIA). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/transfer-impact-assessment-tia. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026transferimpactassessmenttia,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Transfer impact assessment (TIA)}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/transfer-impact-assessment-tia}
}