Argentina
Tier 3 Comprehensive law AmericasPrincipal framework: Law 25.326 (reform pending) (2000). Regulator: AAIP. One of the region’s oldest regimes (2000) and an adequacy holder since 2003; a GDPR-style replacement bill remains pending in Congress.
At a glance
- Principal law
- Law 25.326 (reform pending)
- Regulator
- AAIP
- Breach notification
- No hard statutory deadline under Law 25.326; AAIP guidance encourages prompt notice
- Maximum penalty
- Administrative fines are low and outdated
- DPO required
- Not mandatory under the current law
- Digital consent age
- No statutory age — civil capacity rules
- Extraterritorial reach
- Limited
Structure
- Structural pattern
- Not assessed
- Sub-jurisdictions
- None — no sub-national axis
- ISO code
- AR
A Pattern 4 jurisdiction has no sub-national layer to model. Devolution elsewhere in the legal system does not imply it here — check each Act rather than reasoning from the country.
Transfers and adequacy
- EU member
- No
- EEA member
- No
- Holds EU adequacy
- Yes
- Granted
- 30 June 2003
- Review
- Confirmed Jan 2024 review
Argentina; 1995 Directive (Dec. 2003/490/EC).
Instruments
No instrument profiled yet.
Sources
- Primary Adequacy decision
Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.