Act of 30 July 2018 Title 5, Action en Cessation, and GDPR Article 22

Loi du 30 juillet 2018, Arts. 11-17, 209-211, 220; Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Art. 22

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In force since 25 May 2018, effective 5 September 2018.

A data subject rights rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 24 August 2026.

What it requires

Give a person in Belgium a path to obtain human intervention, express their view, and contest a decision made solely by automated processing that produces a legal or similarly significant effect on them.
Expect a Belgian court, on a data subject's or the GBA/APD's action en cessation, to be able to order the cessation of unlawful processing under Act Title 5.

What this law does

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Articles 12-23 govern access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and the Article 22 right against solely automated decision-making; Belgium adds no sector-specific automated-decision rule beyond that baseline.

What the Act adds, read verbatim, is a domestic enforcement route: Title 5's action en cessation lets the president of the court of first instance, sitting as in summary proceedings, order the cessation of processing that violates the data-protection rules, with standing confined to the data subject and the supervisory authority (Art. 211).

Article 220 implements GDPR Article 80, letting a data subject mandate a qualifying body active in data protection for at least three years to lodge a complaint on their behalf.

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Read the law

Moniteur belge, 5 September 2018, Arts. 11-17, 209-211, 220 (verbatim)

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