Secure processing environment
‘the physical or virtual environment and organisational means to ensure compliance with Union law, such as Regulation (EU) 2016/679, in particular with regard to data subjects’ rights, intellectual property rights, and commercial and statistical confidentiality, integrity and accessibility, as well as with applicable national law, and to allow the entity providing the secure processing environment to determine and supervise all data processing actions, including the display, storage, download and export of data and the calculation of derivative data through computational algorithms.’
The EHDS Regulation does not define this term itself; it refers to it through Article 2(1). See Article 2.
What does this mean in practice?
The secure digital environment in which a data user works with data without being able to export them; only controlled, non-identifiable results leave the environment. "BVO" is the Dutch abbreviation; the underlying concept is legally defined (see the legal glossary).
Questions about what this term means for your organisation? Contact Mr. Dr. Vlieger.