SCOPE Europe is a Brussels-based organization specialized in the development and implementation of industry-driven standards, such as codes of conduct, with a focus on the data economy. SCOPE Europe was founded in 2017 as a subsidiary of the German nonprofit-organization SRIW e.V. (Selbstregulierung Informationswirtschaft). In May 2021, SCOPE Europe became the first accredited Monitoring Body under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), pursuant Art. 41, for a transnational code of conduct and, in 2023, received its second accreditation, this time to monitor a national code of conduct in the Netherlands. With a long track record of addressing regulatory challenges posed by the digital economy – notably for data processing technologies –, SCOPE Europe has largely contributed to the shaping of co-regulatory mechanisms and the setting of effective privacy standards across the European Union (EU). In this regard, SCOPE Europe was also one of the leading stakeholders responsible for the development of the first EU-wide operational data protection standard under the GDPR, namely, the EU Cloud Code of Conduct.
