The Autorité de Protection des Données Personnelles is Monaco's personal data protection authority. Monaco is not an EU or EEA member, so the GDPR does not apply there directly. The Principality instead operates under its own framework — Law No. 1.565, in force since 3 December 2024 — which modernised Monegasque data protection law and brought it substantially closer to European standards without making it identical.
What the APDP publishes
- Délibérations, its formal decisions, including approvals of specific processing activities
- Authorisations for international data transfers, notably for medical research
- Guidance for organisations on compliance obligations, with forms and practical tools
- Material addressed to individuals on their rights and remedies
- Positions on specific processing questions, such as the use of biometric data for workplace time-tracking
Why it matters for compliance teams
Monaco's third-country status is the practical issue. Transfers of personal data from the EEA to Monaco require a transfer mechanism, and a firm with Monegasque operations has to satisfy Law 1.565 locally while also satisfying the GDPR on the European side. The two regimes overlap but do not coincide.
Seqlense DOC indexes APDP délibérations and guidance alongside EDPB transfer material and the EU national authorities, so a group with Monaco operations can see both sides of the transfer question.