Ethiopia: still a law without machinery

Proclamation 1321/2024 carries penalties of up to 4% of turnover and prison terms, yet two years after its publication in the Federal Negarit Gazette, the ECA has issued none of its four planned implementing directives, opened no registration portal, and brought no enforcement action that could be identified.

For controllers operating in Ethiopia, the preparation window remains open without a stated timeline. Registration machinery, breach-notification procedure and DPO expectations are likely to be introduced together, and entities that wait for the directives before beginning preparation will be starting from behind.

The gap between the statute's penalties and the regulator's inactivity defines the current position, and it will not remain unaddressed indefinitely.

(Cut from Digest Issue 01 v2 for space; preserved here per the no-story-lost rule.)