Law on Personal Data, comprehensive regime and lawful basis

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Personal Data, Law No. 998-IIIQ (11 May 2010, as amended through 2023), Arts. 1-2, 8-13

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In force since 11 May 2010.

A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

An app that collects, uses, or discloses the personal data of an individual in Azerbaijan, including a facial image or voiceprint, must have a lawful basis under Art. 9.6, most commonly consent for data in an open category or a legislative basis defining the purpose and method of processing, since Azerbaijan's law reaches biometric data under these same ordinary conditions rather than exempting it.

What this law does

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Azerbaijan's Law on Personal Data, Law No. 998-IIIQ, signed 11 May 2010 and amended at least five times through 2023, is a compact 19-article statute, the shortest in this batch alongside Armenia's. Lawful bases sit at Art. 9.6: consent for data in an open category, a legislative basis defining purpose and method, fully anonymized scientific or statistical research, or vital-interest necessity, a shorter list than several regional peers'.

Art. 9.5's biometric-data enumeration is subject to these same ordinary lawful bases, not a heightened regime; see the dedicated biometric_privacy instrument. The text relied on here is an NATLEX-hosted English translation with visible machine-translation artifacts, not cross-checked against an official Azerbaijani-language source, though its substance is internally consistent.

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Read the law

International Labour Organization NATLEX, direct PDF download of the official English translation

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