Law 151 of 2020
Is your company ready for the data protection law?
The law applies to every company that keeps customer or staff data electronically, whatever its size, apart from exempted bodies such as the Central Bank and the bodies it supervises; the exemption does not cover money-transfer and exchange companies. Learn where you stand and what is required of you in 5 minutes, free.
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Fees from the Executive Regulations (Articles 19, 20, 27, 29 and 31), as published; they are estimates. This is a general self-check tool: its result is general information, not a legal opinion, and we are not accredited by the Personal Data Protection Centre to provide consultancy.
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Law 151 of 2020 and its Executive Regulations · last day of the grace period to comply: 31 October 2026
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Fees from the Executive Regulations (Articles 19, 20, 27, 29 and 31), as published; they are estimates. This is a general self-check tool: its result is general information, not a legal opinion, and we are not accredited by the Personal Data Protection Centre to provide consultancy. This tool calculated the result in your browser, and your answers were not sent anywhere.
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From the table in Article 19 of the Executive Regulations, as published. Some of its bands differ between sources, so treat the figure as an estimate and confirm it on the Centre's portal. A sole proprietorship usually gets a permit rather than a licence; its fee depends on its duration and the number of records, and small volumes are exempt under the table in Article 20.
Your tools outside Egypt?
Which of your tools store data outside Egypt?
Microsoft, Google and Amazon have no cloud region in Egypt, and the common tools below keep their data outside Egypt too. Storing data outside Egypt counts as a transfer, which needs a licence or permit from the Centre, a level of protection in the destination country no lower than Egyptian law, and the data subjects' consent under the Regulations. Moving to an alternative inside Egypt reduces the scope of that transfer.
Can be replaced by an alternative hosted inside Egypt (our alternatives are in development)
Cannot move to Egypt
They stay with a transfer permit, clear consent, and less data sent. For example, a WhatsApp message with a link to a portal inside Egypt instead of the data itself.
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General information about Law 151/2020 and its Executive Regulations (Decree 816 of 2025), from the texts and sources published up to October 2026. It is not a legal opinion, and the fees shown are estimates.