Data Protection Atlas

Equatorial Guinea

Tier 3 Comprehensive law Africa

Principal framework: Law 1/2016 on Personal Data Protection (2016). Regulator: No active DPA.

At a glance

Principal law
Ley núm. 1/2016, de 22 de julio, de Protección de Datos Personales
Regulator
Órgano Rector de Protección de Datos Personales

Structure

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

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.