Data Protection Atlas

Bahrain

Tier 3 Comprehensive law Middle East

Principal framework: Personal Data Protection Law (30/2018) (2018). Regulator: Personal Data Protection Authority.

At a glance

Principal law
Law No. (30) of 2018 with Respect to Personal Data Protection Law
Regulator
Personal Data Protection Authority (PDPA)

Structure

Structural pattern
Not assessed
Sub-jurisdictions
None — no sub-national axis
ISO code
BH

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

Instruments

No instrument profiled yet.

Sources

Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.