Yesterday, the EU unveiled the »Cloud Sovereignty Framework«.

The concept developed by the European Commission sets out eight sovereignty objectives by which cloud services will be assessed going forward. The SEAL system, with five levels (0 to 4), records how dependent a provider is on non‑European actors. From this, a sovereignty score is derived that is intended to make public procurement more transparent and to strengthen Europe’s digital autonomy.

The eight sovereignty objectives (SOV) are:

  • Strategic sovereignty
  • Legal and judicial sovereignty
  • Data and AI sovereignty
  • Operational sovereignty
  • Supply chain sovereignty
  • Technology sovereignty
  • Security and compliance sovereignty
  • Environmental and sustainability sovereignty

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.