TS EN 17740

TS EN 17740 defines requirements for professional profiles involved in the processing and protection of personal data. It addresses how the tasks and activities in this field are to be related to the knowledge, skills and competence expected from practitioners, helping make specialist roles in different organisational settings easier to describe and compare.

Professional profiles and the EQF logic

The focus of this standard is not a single job title, but the broader professional activity around personal data governance and protection. In general technical terms, such profiles may involve compliance support, privacy governance, risk awareness, documentation discipline, communication with stakeholders, and the application of organisational policies. The reference to the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) means that learning outcomes are structured around knowledge, skills and competence, supporting a more harmonised approach to assessment and validation across training and qualification systems.

What this standard is meant to support

• Describing professional activity related to personal data processing and protection
• Linking tasks to knowledge, skills and competence
• Using a more consistent vocabulary across public and private sector contexts
• Supporting the harmonisation of learning outcome assessment and validation

The scope covers intellectual professional activity carried out at different levels of complexity in both public and private organisations. In practice, this area is commonly associated with roles that interpret privacy rules, organise processes, support internal controls and help ensure that personal data are handled appropriately. The standard should be understood as a framework for expressing professional qualification requirements, rather than as a prescriptive description of one specific organisational model or job profile.