Slovenia
Tier 2 Comprehensive law EuropePrincipal framework: GDPR + ZVOP-2 (2023). Regulator: Information Commissioner. Last member state to implement (Jan 2023); detailed CCTV and biometrics chapters.
At a glance
- Criminal offences
- Yes — a dedicated offence carrying custody exists
- Principal law
- Zakon o varstvu osebnih podatkov (ZVOP-2) [Personal Data Protection Act]
- Regulator
- Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia
- 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
- 15
- Extraterritorial reach
- Yes — targeting or monitoring people in the EU (Art 3(2))
- National implementing act
- ZVOP-2 (2023)
Structure
- Structural pattern
- Not assessed
- Sub-jurisdictions
- None — no sub-national axis
- ISO code
- SI
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.