Sweden
Tier 2 Comprehensive law EuropePrincipal framework: GDPR + Data Protection Act 2018 (2018). Regulator: IMY. Constitutional press-freedom laws (TF/YGL) take precedence, narrowing the GDPR's reach over journalism.
At a glance
- Criminal offences
- No dedicated offence — only breach of DPO secrecy
- Public-sector fines
- Capped
- Principal law
- Lag (2018:218) med kompletterande bestämmelser till EU:s dataskyddsförordning (dataskyddslagen) [Act (2018:218) with supplementary provisions to the EU GDPR]
- Regulator
- Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY)
- 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
- Data Protection Act 2018
Structure
- Structural pattern
- Not assessed
- Sub-jurisdictions
- None — no sub-national axis
- ISO code
- SE
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
Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.