Governing Member State is a variable that appears in the Data Processing Agreement Cover Page, in the Restricted Transfers section.
How to fill this out
If the Customer will be transferring data to you from within the EEA, choose EEA Transfers and the relevant EU Member State. Select UK Transfers if the Customer will be transferring data to you from within the UK.
The European Economic Area (EEA) includes the 27 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
You MUST select at least one of the two options and a country within that option.
What if I'm not transferring data from either of these two options?
The Common Paper DPA is designed to support the most common scenario for cloud and hosted services: Controller-to-Processor and Processor-to-Processor relationships that include a cross-border transfer from within the EU/EEA to outside the EU/EEA.
If a transfer from the EEA or UK is not occurring, this might not be the right fit for our DPA.