The GÉANT Code of Conduct 1.0 has been deprecated as of 1st January 2026. Organisations are advised to move to the REFEDS Code of Conduct 2.0 where appropriate or support mdui:PrivacyStatementURL in metadata to meet data protection and processing requirements.
Introduction
The Data protection Code of Conduct v1 describes an approach to meet the requirements of the EU Data Protection Directive in federated identity management. The Data protection Code of Conduct defines behavioral rules for Service Providers which want to receive user attributes from the Identity Providers managed by the Home Organisations. It is expected that Home Organisations are more willing to release attributes to Service Providers who manifest conformance to the Data protection Code of Conduct. For more information, see Introduction to Code of Conduct.
Contents:
Normative Documents
- Code of Conduct for Service Providers
- SAML 2 Profile for the Data Protection Code of Conduct
- Entity Category Definition: Data protection Code of Conduct
Non-normative, Informational Documents
- Introduction to Code of Conduct
- Introduction to Data protection directive
- Managing Data Protection Risks Using the Code of Conduct
- Privacy policy guidelines for Service Providers
- What attributes are relevant for a Service Provider
- Data protection good practice for Home Organisations
- Operator guidelines
- Handling non-compliance
- Notes on Implementation of INFORM/CONSENT GUI Interfaces
Cookbook
Tools and resources
- eduGAIN entity browser to check SPs/IdPs using the CoCo in eduGAIN
- Monitoring tool to monitor eduGAIN SPs' CoCo compliance
- Test SP to test IdPs' attribute release
- Attribute release training on 15th June 2015 at TNC15 conference
- Endorsement letter signed by European research infrastructures and projects
License to the documents above is granted under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.