Poland. Comprehensive data protection. Act
PDPA 1997Act of 29 August 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data (Ustawa o ochronie danych osobowych)
Repealed/superseded
§1Summary
- Synopsis
Poland's general data protection act for twenty years. It created the office of the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection (GIODO) and listed Directive 95/46/EC as its EU basis. The Act of 10 May 2018 repealed it and replaced GIODO with the President of the UODO on 25 May 2018.
- Key themes
- SaaS relevance
Historical only; replaced by the Act of 10 May 2018 and the GDPR (pl-uodo-2018).
§2Dates
- Key dates
- Adopted
- In force
- Ended
- Dz.U. 1997 nr 133 poz. 883, promulgated 1997-10-29; in force 1998-04-30; repealed 2018-05-25 by the Act of 10 May 2018 (Dz.U. 2018 poz. 1000)
§3Text and authority
- Text
- Authoritative text isap.sejm.gov.pl
- Authority
- Generalny Inspektor Ochrony Danych Osobowych (GIODO)
§4Where it applies
- Domestic law of
- Poland
§5Sources and verification
- Sources consulted
- Verification
High confidence.
Dates are from the Sejm's official ELI API (status 'uchylony', repealed by DU/2018/1000, effective 2018-05-25). Some provisions of the 1997 Act were amended or applied differently during the 2018 transition; only the headline repeal date is recorded.