THE EFFECT OF THE NEW EU REGULATION 2016/679 (GDPR) ON THE NEW LAW ON PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

Imer ALIU

Abstract

The new Law on Personal Data Protection in North Macedonia from 2020 transposes the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 so-called GDPR, applicable as of 25 May 2018. This paper offers comprehensive coverage of increasingly important area of data protection legislation and is written at a time when the scale and impact of data processing on society is becoming ever more important. This paper is an overview of the key rules, concepts and definitions and an in-depth analysis of the national data protection legislation in North Macedonia. By analysing the Law on Personal Data Protection in North Macedonia, compeering with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the reality based on the facts that emerge from this research, I hope that this paper creates a useful material for the data protection corpus, a field that deserves to be explored with a considerable attention in the future.

Pages: 150 - 161