REP27 · EU representative · Morocco
Article 27 GDPR · Morocco
If your company is established in Morocco and you offer goods or services to people in the European Union — or you monitor their behaviour — Article 27 of the GDPR requires you to designate, in writing, a representative inside the Union. We are that representative: named in your privacy notice, reachable by all 27 supervisory authorities, and verifiable by anyone holding the code on your certificate.
Law 09-08 and the CNDP govern processing in Morocco. Neither removes Article 27 for a Moroccan company that sells to people in the European Union or monitors their behaviour.
€525,000The Dutch supervisory authority fined Locatefamily.com €525,000 for failing to designate an EU representative, and added periodic penalties until the company complied. No other breach was needed.
Offshoring and call centres for French and Spanish clients, automotive and aeronautics suppliers, textiles, and tourism.
Paid or free, physical or digital. Article 3(2)(a) looks at whether you envisage customers in the Union — a language option, a currency or EU shipping is usually enough.
Analytics, profiling, advertising pixels or app telemetry on people located in the Union fall under Article 3(2)(b), even when you never sell to them.
Processors are covered too. Naming a representative is increasingly a condition to pass vendor onboarding with EU customers.
Law 09-08 governs processing in Morocco and the CNDP supervises it, with a prior authorisation regime for many processing operations. It does not remove Article 27.
the Commission Nationale de contrôle de la protection des Données à caractère Personnel. None of them can receive a request under Article 27(4) on your behalf, and none of them appears in your privacy notice for European purposes.
Moroccan companies reach the Union constantly: offshoring and call centres for French, Spanish and Belgian clients, automotive and aeronautics suppliers, textiles, and tourism.
One designation, published in your notice, verifiable by anyone with the code. Requests logged and forwarded within two business days, with the GDPR deadline already counted for you.
The written designation Article 27(1) requires, countersigned by Europe Services, SE and signed electronically under eIDAS, naming the member states covered.
A certificate with a QR code and a public verification page, so a regulator, a client or a buyer can confirm the designation is live at that moment.
A dedicated address, inbox and form. Every request from a data subject or an authority is logged and forwarded to you within two business days.
The designation is made in a member state where your data subjects are, but the desk covers all 27. A customer in Belgium or Germany is handled the same way, without a second contract.
It is a Moroccan authorisation from a Moroccan authority. Article 27 wants an entity inside the Union that European authorities and individuals can address directly.
Yes, squarely. Recordings, ticket notes and CRM entries about people in France are personal data processed by you, and Article 3(2) applies.
The designation letter and certificate are issued within 24 working hours of the form and payment, after a person reviews the file. Higher-risk sectors take up to five business days.
From €290 a year, billed annually in advance and renewing automatically until you cancel before the renewal date. No fee per request from the Standard plan up.
No. Under EDPB guidance one entity cannot be both. We are the contact point under Article 27(4): we receive, log and forward, hold your Article 30 records, and never answer on the merits or give legal advice.
Moroccan offshoring firms are the closest to the Union of any market we serve, in language and in practice — but still outside it in law.
Free check first: we read your public privacy notice and tell you in ten seconds whether a representative is named. If one is, we say so and you close the tab.
Run the free check