SWIPO is a multi-stakeholder group facilitated by the European Commission. Its members worked together with the aim to develop voluntary Codes of Conduct that would encourage organisations and businesses to use cloud computing for their activities.
This study presents three independent legal assessment reports of the SWIPO codes of conduct on data porting and cloud switching, as well as the SWIPO governance agreement. The individual reports were performed by three independent law firms: Ramon y Cajal Abogados (ES) / Dorda Rechtsanwalte GmbH (AT) / Arthur Cox & Co. (IE). These firms also developed a joint introductory section, which points to a number of significant shortcomings of the SWIPO codes of conduct. The study exclusively adopts a legal perspective; procedural aspects regarding the self-regulatory process and market uptake of the codes of conduct are not covered.