{"page":"/blog/eu-cloud-sovereignty-framework","modified":"2026-11-10","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","columns":["Level","Name in v1.2.1 (Oct 2025)","Name in guidance (Jun 2026)","Commission description, condensed","Calculator answers that map to this level (examples)"],"rows":[["SEAL-0","No Sovereignty","No Sovereignty","Exclusive control by non-EU third parties, governed entirely by non-EU law","Encryption keys held by the \"Provider only\"; no data usage logs"],["SEAL-1","Jurisdictional Sovereignty","Jurisdictional Sovereignty","EU law formally applies with \"limited practical enforceability\"; exclusive non-EU control","\"EU subsidiary with contractual protections\"; data \"mainly in the EU, some third-country use with standard safeguards\""],["SEAL-2","Data Sovereignty","Data Sovereignty","EU law applies and is enforceable; material non-EU dependencies remain; indirect non-EU control","Keys \"Shared - provider has override keys\"; \"Legal structures shielding from foreign law\""],["SEAL-3","Digital Resilience","Technological Sovereignty","EU actors have \"meaningful but not full influence\"; marginal non-EU control","Customer holds the keys but the provider can read some data; all support staff in the EU"],["SEAL-4","Full Digital Sovereignty","Full Digital Sovereignty","Complete EU control, only EU law, \"no critical non-EU dependencies\"","Customer-exclusive keys; \"All data exclusively in the EU with no third-country fallback\""]],"sourceUrls":[[],[],[],[],[]]}