Algeria: Law No. 23-20 on the Audiovisual Activity including data localisation requirement entered into force

On 3 December 2024, Law No. 23-20 on the Audiovisual Activity entered into force. Article 85 established a 12-month transitional period from the law's publication date (2 December 2023), during which existing audiovisual and online communication services were required to align their operations with the law. Article 15 requires that services of audiovisual communication online must have their hosting “exclusively and physically domiciled” with Algeria's public broadcasting organisation, using the .dz domain extension. The provision mandates both physical server location within Algeria and use of the national top-level domain.