Egypt legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 1,972+ Egyptian laws, decrees, executive regulations and regulatory materials from the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI), Egypt's central investment and business regulator. Search Egyptian legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which Egyptian law governs the protection of competition and the prohibition of monopolistic practices?
قانون رقم 3 لسنة 2005 بإصدار قانون حماية المنافسة و منع الممارسات الاحتكارية — Law No. 3 of 2005 promulgating the Law on the Protection of Competition and the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices.
Source: الهيئة العامة للاستثمار والمناطق الحرة (General Authority for Investment and Free Zones) — www.gafi.gov.eg/Arabic/StartaBusiness/Laws-and-Regulations/SiteAssets/Pages/TradeLaws/law%203.pdf
Retrieved: 2026-08-04 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Egyptian sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Egyptian legal materials from official government sources, starting with the legal library of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI). Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: investment and business regulator · official law and regulation library · investor guidance
- الهيئة العامة للاستثمار والمناطق الحرة — General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (www.gafi.gov.eg)
Egyptian legal source types covered
Egyptian legal coverage centres on the business, investment, trade, tax, and financial legal framework published through GAFI, including primary legislation, executive regulations, and regulatory guidance, with further source types where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Laws (قوانين), presidential decree-laws, prime-ministerial and ministerial decisions, and executive regulations (لوائح تنفيذية) — many reproduced from Official Gazette (الجريدة الرسمية) issues — taken directly from GAFI's Laws and Regulations library on www.gafi.gov.eg.
Legislative History
Materials tracking Egyptian legislative reform — such as GAFI-published coverage of draft investment legislation and amendment announcements — where available, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Investor guides (أدلة استرشادية), statistical reporting guidance, and official announcements from the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official Egyptian sources, where available.
One Egyptian legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Egyptian laws, decrees, executive regulations, and regulatory guidance through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=EG&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Egyptian legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Egyptian materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Egyptian legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Egyptian legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Egyptian legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Egyptian legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Egyptian law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Egyptian sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Egyptian legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Egyptian legal research
Egyptian legal information is spread across the Official Gazette, ministries, regulators, and authority-specific legal libraries, published almost entirely in Arabic as scanned or PDF documents. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Egypt legal coverage
Egypt is a civil-law jurisdiction whose codes draw heavily on the French tradition. Legislation is enacted by the House of Representatives or by presidential decree-law and takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette (الجريدة الرسمية), with subsidiary decisions appearing in al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya. Lawstronaut's Egyptian coverage is currently sourced through the legal library of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI), the state body that administers Egypt's investment framework — spanning investment, companies, tax, customs, trade, financial, and free-zone legislation, together with GAFI guidance and announcements. Records are published in Arabic.
Egypt's business-law framework moves quickly: the investment regime, free-zone and special-economic-zone rules (such as Law No. 83 of 2002), and financial and tax legislation are amended repeatedly as economic reform programs advance. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps an Egyptian legal research answer correct today.
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Build Egyptian legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
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Monitor Egyptian regulatory materials, guidance, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Egyptian legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Egyptian legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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