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Law: See Qatar State and Qatar Financial Centre

Regulator: See Qatar State and Qatar Financial Centre

Summary: Qatar presents a comprehensive data protection legal framework at federal level, represented by Law No. 13 of 2016 Concerning Privacy and Protection of Personal Data (the Law) which came into effect in 2017, but also provides a separate regime that applies to entities licensed within Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), a global business and financial center. The relationship between the Qatar State and QFC jurisdictions is not always clear. Please see the jurisdiction links to Qatar State and the QFC below for further information.

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