Norway
Tier 2 Comprehensive law EuropePrincipal framework: GDPR (EEA) + Personal Data Act 2018 (2018). Regulator: Datatilsynet. Camera-surveillance and credit-check rules kept nationally.
At a glance
- Criminal offences
- No dedicated data protection offence carrying custody
- Public-sector fines
- Yes — ordinary administrative fines
- Principal law
- Personopplysningsloven (lov 15. juni 2018 nr. 38) [Personal Data Act]
- Regulator
- Datatilsynet
- Breach notification
- 72 hours to the supervisory authority (Art 33); undue-delay notice to individuals at high risk
- Maximum penalty
- Up to €20m or 4% of global annual turnover
- DPO required
- Public authorities; large-scale regular monitoring or special-category processing (Art 37)
- Digital consent age
- 13
- Extraterritorial reach
- Yes — targeting or monitoring people in the EU (Art 3(2))
- National implementing act
- Personal Data Act 2018 (EEA)
Structure
- Structural pattern
- Not assessed
- Sub-jurisdictions
- None — no sub-national axis
- ISO code
- NO
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
- Yes
- EEA member
- Yes
- Holds EU adequacy
- Yes
EU/EEA member — intra-EEA transfers need no adequacy decision.
Instruments
No instrument profiled yet.
Also applies here
Directly applicable as EU law, without national transposition. The national act supplements it rather than replacing it.
Sources
- Primary Personopplysningsloven (lov 15. juni 2018 nr. 38) [Personal Data Act]
- Regulator Datatilsynet
- Primary Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) EUR-Lex
Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.