Forutsatt at risikovurderingen av personvernbruddet er ferdig, avslutter den behandlingsansvarlige saken.

Forutsatt at means provided that, assuming that, or on the condition that.

It is a fairly formal expression, so it fits well in legal, administrative, or policy language. In more everyday Norwegian, you might more often see hvis for if, but forutsatt at sounds more precise and conditional.

So here it introduces the condition that must be true before the main action happens.

Because Norwegian very often makes compound nouns by joining words together.

Here, risikovurderingen is built from:

• risiko = risk
• vurdering = assessment/evaluation
• -en = the definite ending

So risikovurderingen means the risk assessment.

This is very normal in Norwegian. Where English often uses two separate words, Norwegian often prefers one compound word.

Here av means of.

So risikovurderingen av personvernbruddet means the risk assessment of the personal data breach or more naturally in English, the risk assessment of the privacy breach / data breach.

In other words, av personvernbruddet tells you what the risk assessment is about.

It is another compound noun:

• personvern = privacy / data protection
• brudd = breach
• -et = the definite ending

So personvernbruddet means the privacy breach or, in a more legal/data-protection context, the personal data breach.

Again, Norwegian likes to combine these elements into one word.

Er ferdig literally means is finished or is complete.

In this sentence, it means the risk assessment has been completed.

Norwegian often uses være ferdig where English might use a more passive expression such as:

• is complete
• has been completed
• is finished

So risikovurderingen ... er ferdig is a very natural Norwegian way to say that the assessment is done.

This is because of Norwegian V2 word order.

When a sentence begins with something other than the subject, the finite verb usually comes first in the main clause.

Here the sentence starts with the conditional part:

• Forutsatt at risikovurderingen av personvernbruddet er ferdig

After that comes the main clause, and because the first position is already taken, Norwegian puts the verb first:

• avslutter den behandlingsansvarlige saken

If you wrote the main clause by itself, it would normally be:

• Den behandlingsansvarlige avslutter saken.

So the changed word order is a standard Norwegian grammar rule.

Den behandlingsansvarlige means the controller or more fully the data controller in a legal/privacy context.

It comes from behandlingsansvarlig, which literally means something like responsible for processing.

The form den behandlingsansvarlige is used because Norwegian can turn an adjective-like word into a noun phrase meaning the one who is responsible.

The pattern is:

• den + adjective in -e form

So:

• behandlingsansvarlig = processing-responsible / responsible for processing
• den behandlingsansvarlige = the responsible party / the controller

This is very common in formal Norwegian.

Because it is in a definite form after den.

In Norwegian, when an adjective is used with a definite noun phrase, it usually takes -e:

• en ansvarlig person = a responsible person
• den ansvarlige personen = the responsible person

The same idea applies here, even though the noun is understood rather than stated explicitly:

• den behandlingsansvarlige = the controller / the responsible party

So the -e ending is a normal definite-form adjective ending.

Saken means the case.

The definite ending -en shows that it is a specific case already known from the context. In legal or administrative language, this is very common: the text is talking about a particular case already under discussion, not just any case in general.

So:

• sak = case, matter
• saken = the case

Because Norwegian often uses the present tense for:

• general rules
• procedures
• instructions
• future actions that happen once a condition is met

That is exactly what is happening here. The sentence describes a procedure: once the assessment is complete, the controller closes the case.

So avslutter is present tense, but in English you might still understand it as something like will close depending on context.

This kind of present-tense usage is very common in formal Norwegian.