Law note · Belgium
Act of 30 July 2018 on the Protection of Natural Persons with regard to Personal Data
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.
What it asks of an app
- 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.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: crawls_web, trains_models, deploys_chatbot, automated_outreach
Primary source: Moniteur belge, 5 September 2018, and the consolidated Justel text (both direct read)