Law / Belgium

Act of 30 July 2018 on the Protection of Natural Persons with regard to Personal Data

Loi du 30 juillet 2018 relative a la protection des personnes physiques a l'egard des traitements de donnees a caractere personnel (numac 2018040581)

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In force since 5 September 2018.

A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 24 August 2026.

What it requires

Establish a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 6 lawful basis before processing personal data of a person in Belgium, and treat 13 as the digital-consent age under Act Article 7 for information-society services offered directly to a child.

What this law does

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Belgium gives the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) domestic effect through the Act of 30 July 2018, published in the Moniteur belge 5 September 2018, read end to end in the official bilingual gazette text. Article 6 states Title 1 executes the Regulation; the Act sets the digital-consent age at 13 (Art. 7), designates public-interest processing categories under GDPR Article 9(2)(g) (Art. 8), and adds criminal-conviction-data grounds (Art. 10).

The supervisory structure sits in a separate statute, the Act of 3 December 2017. The Act has been amended four times on the Justel record, most recently in 2024.

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Read the law

Moniteur belge, 5 September 2018, and the consolidated Justel text

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