## 13.2.5.1.2  Data Protection
Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) processes personal data of business partners that might be subject to data protection legislation applicable in some countries.
Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) uses SAP ILM to support the deletion of this personal data. SAP delivers an end of purpose check for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA). You register the end of purpose check (EoP) in the Customizing settings for the blocking and deletion of the SAP Business Partner.
## Display of Blocked Data
Only if a user has special authorization, is it possible to display blocked business partner master data. However, it is still not possible to create, change, copy, or perform follow-up activities on this blocked business partner data.
However, FI-CA-specific data relating to a blocked business partner (as for example the contract account) users can display without having special authorization.
For more information on the blocking and deletion of personal data, on the end of purpose check and on displaying blocked data in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, see the Product Assistance of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Basic Functions SAP Business Partner Blocking and Deleting Personal Data .
## Process Flow
Before archiving data, you must define residence time and retention periods in SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM. You choose whether data deletion is required for data stored in archive files or data stored in the database, also depending on the type of deletion functionality available. You do the following:
1. Run transaction IRMPOL and maintain the required residence and retention policies for the central business partner (ILM object: CA\_BUPA ).
2. Run transaction FPDPR\_BP\_INIT once for existing business partners for which you want to execute the end of purpose checks. New business partners you create are automatically included in the end of purpose checks.
3. Run transaction FPDPR1 to prepare the end of purpose check of the central business partner. The function module MKK\_BUPA\_EOP\_CHECK saved for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FICA) in table BUTEOPFM provides the EoP check result obtained by transaction FPDPR1 to transaction BUPA\_PRE\_EOP .
4. Run transaction BUPA\_PRE\_EOP to enable the end of purpose check function for the central business partner.
Business users can request unblocking of blocked data by using the transaction BUP\_REQ\_UNBLK .
If you have the needed authorizations, you can unblock data by running the transaction BUPA\_PRE\_EOP .
You delete data by using the transaction ILM\_DESTRUCTION for the ILM objects of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA).
## Configuration: Simplified Blocking and Deletion
You configure the settings related to the blocking and deletion of business partner master data in Customizing for Cross-Application Components under Data Protection .
Define the settings for authorization management under Authorization Management . For more information, see the Customizing documentation.
Define the settings for blocking under Blocking and Unblocking Business Partner . For more information, see the Customizing documentation.
You configure the settings specific for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable in the Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Technical Settings Data Protection and Data Deletion . For more information, see the Customizing documentation.