UAVG Articles 30-33 and 46, Health, Criminal-Conviction, and National-ID-Number Data

UAVG, Arts. 30-33, 46

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In force since 25 May 2018.

A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 24 August 2026.

What it requires

Obtain a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 9(2) basis before processing health, genetic, racial or ethnic origin, political opinion, or religious-belief data of a person in the Netherlands, following UAVG's Chapter 3 exceptions where one applies to your processing purpose.
Do not treat the citizen service number (BSN) as a general-purpose identifier; UAVG Article 46 restricts its processing.

What this law does

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UAVG Chapter 3 Section 3.1 (Arts. 22-30) implements General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 9's special-category regime with article-by-article national exceptions: research and statistics, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, and genetic data (Arts. 24-28), a health-data exception for administrative bodies, pension funds, and employers (Art. 30), and rules on criminal-conviction data (Art. 33, corrected during the #8352 wave 4 review from a mistyped Art. 31, which is a distinct provision on processing under governmental oversight).

Article 46 restricts processing of the citizen service number (BSN) to statutory or law-designated purposes; corrected during this review, its full text is in fact present and readable on the stored page, not truncated as previously stated. The AP's own scraping guidance (published 1 May 2024, as described in secondary commentary) states that publicly available information does not become lawfully processable merely because the source was public.

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Read the law

wetten.overheid.nl, UAVG Arts. 1, 22, 24-31
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