Faroe Islands

Tier 3 Comprehensive law Europe

Principal framework: Data Protection Act 2020 (2020). Regulator: Dátueftirlitið.

At a glance

Principal law: Data Protection Act 2020
Regulator: Dátueftirlitið

Structure

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

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
Review: Confirmed Jan 2024 review

Faroe Islands; 1995 Directive (Dec. 2010/146/EU).

Instruments

No instrument profiled yet.

Sources

Primary Adequacy decision

Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.