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title: "Transfer impact assessment (TIA)"
description: "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."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/transfer-impact-assessment-tia
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
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# Transfer impact assessment (TIA)

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](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/privacy-and-ai#transfers-remote-inference-and-tias)
- Chapters: [ch. 19, Privacy & AI](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/privacy-and-ai)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-transfer-impact-assessment-tia

## Sources

[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)