Benin

Tier 3 Comprehensive law Africa

Principal framework: Digital Code (Book V) (2017). Regulator: APDP.

At a glance

Principal law: Loi n° 2017-20 du 20 avril 2018 portant Code du numérique (Livre V)
Regulator: Autorité de Protection des Données Personnelles (APDP)

Structure

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

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

Regulator Autorité de Protection des Données Personnelles (APDP)
Primary Loi n° 2017-20 du 20 avril 2018 portant Code du numérique (Livre V)

Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.