12.3 May personal data be included in the accreditation reports?

When submitting an application for program or system accreditation in ELIAS, higher education institutions must confirm that no further personal data is included in the accreditation report, unless,

• the data subject has consented or
• obtaining the consent of the data subject is not possible or only possible with disproportionate effort and it is obvious that the disclosure is in the interest of the data subject (cf. Section 29 sentence 2 MRVO).

One way in which higher education institutions can ensure this is through a provision in the assessment contract with the Agencies, according to which the Agency guarantees this. The aforementioned requirements also apply to the internal accreditation reports of system-accredited higher education institutions (cf. § 29 sentence 3 MRVO).