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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.

Transfer impact assessment (TIA): mentions per chapter4 mentions of the term across 2 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter08 Regulatory Map: 1 mention08 Regulatory Map119 Privacy & AI: 3 mentions19 Privacy & AI3No mentions in the other 21 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
Transfer impact assessment (TIA): mentions per chapter4 mentions of the term across 2 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter000102030405060708 Regulatory Map: 1 mention10810111213141516171819 Privacy & AI: 3 mentions31920212223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of Transfer impact assessment (TIA) per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map1No
10 Reading List0No
11 AI Defined0No
12 Governance Program0No
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents0No
18 EU AI Act0No
19 Privacy & AI3Yes
20 Existing Law0No
21 AI Laws Worldwide0No
22 Principles & Standards0No
23 AI Agents0No
  • 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}
}