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Law of the Republic of Armenia on Protection of Personal Data
Prepared by Shubhank Suman · Last reviewed
CURRENT / IN FORCE
- Legal character
- Statute
- Region
- Europe
- Adopted
- 18 May 2015
What it covers
Armenia's general data-protection law. It regulates how state and local bodies, organisations and natural persons process personal data, sets the main concepts (personal data, processing, transfer to third parties), processing principles and legal grounds, special-category and biometric data, data-subject rights of access, rectification and blocking, transfers to third parties and to other countries, and the powers of the authorised body.
Why it matters
It is the primary privacy law for Armenia and the basis for supervision by Armenia's Personal Data Protection Agency.
Refer to it when
Use it for processing personal data in Armenia, responding to data-subject requests (with five-day response duties in some cases), or transferring data outside Armenia.
AI, privacy and cybersecurity relevance
- AI: Low
- Privacy: Very High
- Cyber: Moderate
AI
LOW RELEVANCE
No AI-specific provisions.
Privacy
VERY HIGH RELEVANCE
Core data-protection statute for Armenia.
Cybersecurity
MODERATE RELEVANCE
Security of processing duties.
Applicability
State and local bodies, organisations and natural persons processing personal data in Armenia.
Current validity
CURRENT / IN FORCE. The supplied copy is taken from the legislation portal and does not state its consolidation date; check for later amendments. Read the official PDF on this page for the operative text.
Read first
Article 1 (scope) → Article 3 (concepts) → principles and legal grounds → data-subject rights → Article 26 (transfers).
Provisions / sections covered
Article 1 – Subject matter
Scope, with secrecy regimes, national security and journalism handled separately.
Article 3 – Main concepts
Definitions of personal data, processing and transfer to third parties.
Data-subject rights
Information about, access to, rectification and blocking of personal data, with deadlines for the processor.
Article 26 – Transfer to third parties
Conditions for transferring personal data, including abroad.
Article 28 – Final part
Final and transitional provisions.
Subject-matter tags
- Data subject rights
- Controller and processor
- Biometrics
Subject-matter tags describe what the indexed text discusses. They are not legal conclusions.
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