Data-center law in Sudan

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Sudan has no data-centre-specific siting, permitting or utility statute. The Environment (Protection) Act, 2001 requires a person entering into any project that may probably negatively affect the environment or natural resources to present an environmental feasibility study, signed by an evaluation and follow-up committee, notwithstanding any other law's own permit requirements for that project.

Two further leads named for this jurisdiction, an Electricity Act governing generation and distribution licensing and a National Investment Encouragement Act governing registration and incentives, have not been located.

Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Environmental review

What impact review must precede approval, and who leads it?

Environment Protection Act, Environmental Feasibility Study and Contravention Penalties

In force

Environment (Protection) Act, 2001 (Sudan), arts. 17, 20 and 21

Applies to both

Article 17 provides that, notwithstanding any other law's own permit requirements for programmes and projects, any person intending to enter into a project that may probably negatively affect the environment and natural resources must present an environmental feasibility study, signed by the evaluation and follow-up committee, to the competent authority.

Article 20 lists environmentally harmful acts that amount to a contravention of the Act, including the release of pollutants, altering the route of natural watercourses, and spreading genetically modified organisms without observing the safeguards governing them.

Article 21 punishes a contravention of article 20 with imprisonment not exceeding three years, or a fine not exceeding ten thousand Sudanese pounds, or both, and lets the material subject of the contravention be confiscated for the benefit of the authority. On conviction the court may additionally suspend the project, facility or source of the contravention in whole or in part, or revoke its licence in whole or in part, and the penalty may be doubled on repetition.

Article 2 repeals the Environment and Natural Resources Higher Council Act, 1991, while preserving in force any regulation or measure made under it until revoked or amended under this Act.

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