Law note · Azerbaijan
Law on Personal Data, enforcement and liability
What it requires
- An app processing the personal data of a person in Azerbaijan must be prepared to answer to the relevant executive authority's compliance checks; Art. 19's own liability provision is a bare reference to other Azerbaijani law with no fine amounts stated in this Act, and an aggrieved person may separately sue in court for moral and material damage under Art. 7.4, but only on proof of the damage suffered.
When LexLint raises it
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- Private right of action
- Yes
What we found
Art. 17 gives a relevant executive authority, not named within this Act itself, power to check compliance of registered information systems, demand information, verify registration filings, demand remedies for violations, and take measures to prosecute violators; this document does not independently confirm which body currently holds that role.
Art. 19 (Liability) is a single sentence: persons guilty of violating this Law shall be held responsible in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan, a bare reference-out to other, unread law with no fine amounts, penalty tiers, or named enforcement mechanism inside this Act itself, markedly thinner than every other jurisdiction in this batch.
Art. 7.4 gives the data subject a right to complain to the executive authority or the court, and to demand payment of moral and material damage in a court of law, an ordinary proof-of-damage civil remedy rather than a no-proof-of-damage statutory-damages mechanism. Fine amounts a secondary source claims exist in the Administrative Violations Code (300 to 500 AZN, imprisonment up to 7 years) are unconfirmed against primary text and are not stated here as sourced to this Act.