Does Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) cover Annex 11 to EU GMP?

76% of Annex 11 to EU GMP you already have

Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) already covers about 76% of Annex 11 to EU GMP, leaving 4 of 17 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 3 Likely covered 10 New work 4

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) reaches these. This is the list to scope.

Clause 11

Periodic evaluation

Clause 14

Electronic signatures

Clause 15

Batch release

Clause 6

Accuracy checks

Show the 13 you already have

Clause 1

Risk management

Clause 12

Security

Clause 13

Incident management

Clause 10

Change and configuration management

Clause 16

Business continuity

Clause 17

Archiving

Clause 2

Personnel

Clause 3

Suppliers and service providers

Clause 4

Validation

Clause 5

Data

Clause 7

Data storage

Clause 8

Printouts

Clause 9

Audit trails

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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