Egypt
Tier 3 Comprehensive law AfricaPrincipal framework: Law 151/2020 on Personal Data Protection (2020). Regulator: Data Protection Centre (regs pending). Law 151/2020 is on the books, but the executive regulations and the Data Protection Centre have not been fully stood up — practical enforcement remains limited.
At a glance
- Principal law
- Law No. 151 of 2020 promulgating the Personal Data Protection Law
- Regulator
- Personal Data Protection Centre (PDPC)
- Breach notification
- 72 hours to the Data Protection Centre for qualifying breaches
- Maximum penalty
- Fines from EGP 100k to 5m, plus criminal sanctions
- DPO required
- DPO required and registered
- Digital consent age
- Parental consent for children
- Extraterritorial reach
- Egyptians’ data and processing in Egypt
Structure
- Structural pattern
- Not assessed
- Sub-jurisdictions
- None — no sub-national axis
- ISO code
- EG
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
No source recorded yet. This record cannot rise above Tier 3 until it has one — see depth tiers.
Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.