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Monaco is not a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) jurisdiction. Its comprehensive regime is Loi n. 1.565 du 3 decembre 2024 relative a la protection des donnees personnelles, which repeals and replaces the older Loi n. 1.165 du 23 decembre 1993.

Article 118, read directly, confirms the repeal and the law's own closing provisions, but no standalone commencement clause was found across all 118 articles, so this document records the law's effective_date as its confirmed publication date in the Journal de Monaco, 13 December 2024, rather than a separately stated commencement date; a widely circulated 14 December 2024 figure is secondary-sourced only and is not used.

Primary text confirms biometric data as an explicit special category, a full GDPR Article 82-equivalent civil damages right at Article 106, and a real cross-border transfer regime. Monaco itself does not currently hold an EU adequacy decision, unlike Andorra; a renewed adequacy request was pending as of the sources found.

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Comprehensive regime

Loi sur la Protection des Donnees Personnelles

cite Loi n. 1.565 du 3 decembre 2024 relative a la protection des donnees a caractere personnel, Journal de Monaco n. 8725 stage In effect since 2024-12-13 source Journal de Monaco n. 8725 and the consolidated text at legimonaco.mc, both read in full through crawler infrastructure (195,692 characters at the Journal de Monaco, not truncated)

Law 1.565 replaced Law 1.165 (1993), transposes Council of Europe Convention 108+ obligations, ratified by Monaco 6 March 2025, and is structured around General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-style principles. Article 118, read directly at both legimonaco.mc and the Journal de Monaco, states plainly that Law 1.165 is repealed, and the law was signed by Prince Albert II on 3 December 2024 and published in Journal de Monaco n. 8725 on 13 December 2024.

No standalone entry-into-force clause was found across all 118 articles read directly, including the closing and transitional provisions, so effective_date here is that Journal de Monaco publication date, 13 December 2024, not an express commencement date the law states for itself; a widely circulated 14 December 2024 figure is secondary-sourced only and is not used.

Primary text confirms biometric data as a GDPR Article 4(14)-style special category at Article 2(7) and (9), with Article 7 setting special protections, plus a narrower Article 77 rule requiring the prior opinion of the supervisory authority before administrative or judicial authorities process genetic or biometric data for authentication, and an employer exemption for biometric processing strictly necessary for workplace access control.

Article 106 is a direct GDPR Article 82 equivalent civil damages right, distinct from the Article 39 administrative complaint route. A cross-border transfer regime exists at Articles 97 to 100, but Monaco itself does not currently hold an EU adequacy decision, so transfers from the EU into Monaco need their own safeguard, typically standard contractual clauses, a fact about EU law's treatment of Monaco rather than about what Monaco's own law requires outbound.

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