Mauritania

Tier 3 Comprehensive law Africa

Principal framework: Law 2017-020 on Personal Data Protection (2017). Regulator: —.

At a glance

Principal law: Loi n° 2017-020 du 22 juillet 2017
Regulator: Autorité de Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel (APD)

Structure

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

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 à Caractère Personnel (APD)

Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.