This Law does not apply to Processing Personal Data in the following cases: (a) protecting national security or the public interest; (b) performance by units of the State Administrative Apparatus and other public legal persons of their legally prescribed functions; (c) performance of a legal obligation imposed on the Controller by any law, judgment or court decision; (d) protecting the State's economic and financial interests; (e) protecting a vital interest of the Data Subject; (f) detecting or preventing a criminal offence on the basis of a formal written request from an investigating authority; (g) performance of a contract to which the Data Subject is a party; (h) Processing within a personal or family context; (i) historical, statistical, scientific, literary or economic research by entities authorised to conduct such work, provided that published research and statistics use no indication or reference relating to the Data Subject, so that Personal Data cannot be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person; (j) where the data is publicly available in a manner not contrary to this Law.
This article belongs to the source version of Royal Decree 6/2022. Amendment 68/2026 has not yet been incorporated into the published article-by-article text. Interpretation and application must be checked against the official Arabic text and the current version.