The Belgian legislators have made a limited use of the so-called “opening clauses” of the GDPR to create special regulations for data protection in Belgium.
In the following, you will find the additions and derogations to the GDPR on the most important topics of data protection that companies need to know. If topics are not linked, there are no derogating or specifying provisions in the national data protection law.
- Specific data protection law and official guidelines
- Substantive and territorial scope (no regulations deviating from the GDPR)
- Definitions
- Legal principles (no regulations deviating from the GDPR)
- Legal basis
- Sensitive data
- Informing requirements (no regulations deviating from the GDPR)
- E-marketing
- Cookies
- Automated decision-making (no regulations deviating from the GDPR)
- Rights of data subjects
- Processing on behalf of a controller (no regulations deviating from the GDPR)
- Records of processing activities (no regulations deviating from the GDPR)
- Data security (no regulations deviating from the GDPR)
- Data breaches
- Data protection impact assessment (DPIA)
- Data protection officer
- Certification (no regulations deviating from the GDPR)
- Data transfer (no regulations deviating from the GDPR)
- Supervisory authorities
- Sanctions and penalties
- Data protection for employees
- Archiving, scientific and historical research
