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Guidance by trigger

The triggering event determines the order of the analysis.

A questionnaire, an audit, market entry or the maintenance of several engagements each call for distinct decisions and levels of evidence.

Review situations

A client request exists

Security questionnaireContractual annexAnnounced auditFindings received

A decision needs to be prepared

RenewalEU call for tendersEU market entryProduct security

The role determines the mandate

The supplier examines its own capability. The European client defines the supplier decision it needs to reach.

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Choose an engagement

Meet the deadline. Establish capacity. Sustain commitments.

Start from what needs to be obtained now: an answer, an in-depth review, or a capability tracked over time.

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Reply

A document and a deadline.

QuestionnaireAnnexAuditAll responses →
02

Prepare

Verify and remediate.

EU exposureClient and technical assessmentEvidence and remediationAll preparations →
03

Maintain

Keep the current commitments.

Continuous assuranceClient assurance officeProduct security cellAll recurring services →

Basis for the conclusions

From the client's requirement to a qualified piece of evidence.

The same trail links Promise, Policy, Practice, Platform, finding, remediation and controlled sharing.

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Trace

Evidence traceabilityAssurance registerTrust roomContinuous verification

Frameworks and sectors

GDPR and international accessHealth data and HDSNIS2 and the supply chainIndustrial confidentialityCountry filesExport mapAll frameworks →

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Terms of engagement

Responsibilities, information and limits established before the engagement.

Confidentiality, independence, reversibility and traceability of responsibilities structure the conduct of the work.

Review the firm's rules

Trust rules

ConfidentialityIndependenceSecurityReversibility

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European principals

Have an international supplier assessed under explicit mandate and sharing rules.

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Your contextGeneral reading

Adapt the reading to the assessed company’s country and activity.

Home / Jurisdictions / Namibia

Country file

Namibia

The country's exports are dominated by raw materials and energy. Roughly half the population is connected and hosting there is shared between local and foreign providers. Regional benchmarks: Sub-Saharan Africa.

Relationship with the European Union

Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union — provisionally applied since 2019

A trade agreement settles customs duties and the origin of goods. It does not settle security: the audit rights and evidence expected by the European client remain the same.

Sources reviewed on 17 September 2026

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Economy and sectors

Provisional application

Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union

provisionally applied since 2019A trade agreement settles customs duties and the origin of goods. It does not settle security: the audit rights and evidence expected by the European client remain the same.

Map of trade agreements — European Commission
Third country

regime applicable to European data and access

European framework trackedNo general adequacy decision. The transfer mechanism and its accompanying measures must be chosen according to the actual data flows.

Adequacy decisions — European Commission
No country regime

European Union restrictive measures targeting the country

EU Sanctions Map, as at 26 September 2026No EU restrictive measures regime targets this country. Thematic regimes — terrorism, human rights, cyberattacks, chemical weapons — nonetheless target individuals of any nationality: screening against the consolidated list applies here as elsewhere.

EU Sanctions Map — European Commission
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Incidents, fraud and impersonation

427

secure servers per million inhabitants

2024, latest available figureHosting there may be local or foreign. Ask where your data actually resides, and who holds the keys to it.

Secure Internet servers — World Bank
Unforeseen intermediary

identification of the parties to the transaction

Cross-cutting controlExtraction chains involve numerous intermediaries. Identify who invoices, who ships and who is accountable in the event of an incident, before the question arises.

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Points to check within your organisation

To be scoped

What the service actually covers

An extraction-based economy tells you little about the provider you are assessing. Have them specify what is supplied, by which entity, and with what technical resources of their own.

To be governed

The small amount of data that flows, and its framework

Without an adequacy decision, the volume transferred matters less than its nature: contracts, contact details and access logs are enough to trigger the obligation. Ask which transfer tool is used and what its scope covers.

To be located

The country behind each environment

Hosting may be local or overseas, and often both depending on the environment. Ask for the real picture: production, staging, backups, logs.

Developments to be aware of

The topics that may change your answers

EU restrictive measures

No EU restrictive measures regime targets this country. Thematic regimes — terrorism, human rights, cyberattacks, chemical weapons — nonetheless target individuals of any nationality: screening against the consolidated list applies here as elsewhere.

EU Sanctions Map — European Commission
What this means for your situation

Ores and metals: 32.3% of goods exported. This structure sheds light on an economy, not on a supplier's maturity: a local software vendor or service centre qualifies on its own evidence.

Official sources

Confidential exchange

Describe your European relationship and the request received.

The Namibia file establishes a country and its relationship with the Union. What remains is to establish exactly what the service covers, and what resources of its own are engaged there.

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