Ethiopia: still a law without machinery

Proclamation 1321/2024 carries penalties of up to 4% of turnover and prison terms, yet two years after 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 we could find. For controllers operating in Ethiopia the preparation window is open and unannounced: registration machinery, breach-notification procedure and DPO expectations will likely land together, and entities that wait for the directives before starting will be starting late. The gap between the statute's penalties and the regulator's silence is the story, and it will not stay open indefinitely. (Cut from Digest Issue 01 v2 for space; preserved here per the no-story-lost rule.)