As Europe intensifies its focus on digital autonomy, Fabasoft leads by example. Following a comprehensive internal assessment against the European Commission’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework, we have achieved an overall Sovereignty Effective Assurance Level 3 (SEAL-3), with the majority of individual evaluation criteria performing at the highest tier, SEAL-4.
In the European Commission's tiered evaluation model, Level 3 represents the top score of verifiable digital sovereignty that is practically attainable in today’s market. Under current EU public procurement instruments, this achievement confirms Fabasoft at the highest possible sovereignty rating available for enterprise cloud operations today.
Level 3 Is the Real-World Peak
While the framework defines an aspirational Level 4, one criterion demands a digital and operational stack that is completely independent of non-EU supply chains, down to the silicon. The industrial reality across Europe is straightforward: enterprise-grade server hardware, high-performance accelerators, and semiconductor supply chains that are 100% European-manufactured simply do not exist at scale. Initiatives like the new European Chip Design Platform, just announced in early November by Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty), are good and highly needed signals, but will take many years to close the existing gap.
Unless the European hardware ecosystem matures to meet the extreme constraints set by the framework, the overall SEAL-3 remains the practical gold standard. It guarantees what organizations need most: full European legal jurisdiction, complete operational autonomy, absolute immunity from non-EU extraterritorial reach, and unconditional data control.
Security First & CADA Preparedness
Fabasoft’s sovereignty posture builds upon an uncompromised compliance baseline. Our operational architecture directly conforms to the rigorous compliance to schemes like the BSI-C5, regulations like NIS2, AI Act, Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA), and recommendations from European security agencies, providing the robust cybersecurity foundation required by highly regulated sectors and public authorities.
This foundation places us well ahead of incoming regulations like the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA). CADA will require sovereign cloud and AI computing services for critical public and private sector operations, enforcing verifiable boundaries across data storage, control planes, and software dependencies. By meeting requirements today, Fabasoft ensures its clients are fully prepared for CADA adoption without needing costly architectural migrations later.
Operational Reality
At Fabasoft, digital sovereignty is a natural part of who we are and is already a reality in our daily work. It shapes the way we develop and operate our technology. As Europe works toward greater hardware independence, organizations need to protect mission-critical data and meet governance and compliance requirements. They cannot afford to wait. We share this commitment with our European partners in research, development, and operations.
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