Jurisdictions
Seventeen laws, and what we hold of them today
Each country carries its own law, authority and currency. The register, data-subject requests and the evidence log work everywhere — they assert nothing about national law. Amounts, deadlines and due dates wait for the signature of a lawyer admitted to the bar of the jurisdiction, and their name will appear here.
17 in preparation
ECOWAS zone
Supplementary Act A/SA.1/01/10 of 16 February 2010 is binding community law that the fifteen member states were to transpose. The francophone national laws of the zone are transpositions of it: they share the definition of data, the principles, the prior-formality regime and the rights of individuals. One trunk, eight countries.
- Senegal
in preparation
Loi n° 2008-12 du 25 janvier 2008 (réforme engagée)
register and evidence open · no figures
- Benin
in preparation
Loi n° 2017-20 du 20 avril 2018, code du numérique
register and evidence open · no figures
- Côte d'Ivoire
in preparation
Loi n° 2013-450 du 19 juin 2013
register and evidence open · no figures
- Burkina Faso
in preparation
Loi n° 001-2021/AN (révise la loi n° 010-2004)
register and evidence open · no figures
- Togo
in preparation
Loi n° 2019-014 du 29 octobre 2019
register and evidence open · no figures
- Mali
in preparation
Loi n° 2013-015 du 21 mai 2013
register and evidence open · no figures
- Niger
in preparation
Loi n° 2017-28 du 3 mai 2017reference disputed
register and evidence open · no figures
- Guinea
in preparation
Loi L/2016/037/AN du 28 juillet 2016
register and evidence open · no figures · billing not open
CEMAC zone
Central Africa has no binding equivalent: what exists are model laws and sector directives. The trunk is thinner and national divergence stronger — each law must be read on its own terms.
- Cameroon
in preparation
Loi n° 2024/017 du 23 décembre 2024
register and evidence open · figures awaiting validation
- Congo
in preparation
Loi n° 29-2019 du 10 octobre 2019
register and evidence open · no figures
- Chad
in preparation
Loi n° 007/PR/2015 du 10 février 2015
register and evidence open · no figures
- Gabon
in preparation
Loi n° 001/2011 du 25 septembre 2011
register and evidence open · no figures
Outside any bloc
Five jurisdictions belong to no usable regional trunk and each forms its own pack.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
in preparation
Ordonnance-loi n° 23/010 du 13 mars 2023, code du numérique
register and evidence open · no figures · billing not open
- Rwanda
in preparation
Loi n° 058/2021 du 13 octobre 2021
register and evidence open · no figures
- Madagascar
in preparation
Loi n° 2014-038 du 9 janvier 2015
register and evidence open · no figures
- Djibouti
in preparation
Code du numérique, juin 2025
register and evidence open · no figures
- Mauritania
in preparation
Loi n° 2017-020 du 22 juillet 2017
register and evidence open · no figures
Cameroon: the amounts shown by the self-assessment are transcribed from an internal audit and have been awaiting legal validation since 2026-08-09. No lawyer has signed. This notice disappears on signature.
This table gives the identity of the text, the authority and the currency: the only facts an agent may encode without a signature, because they are publicly verifiable and assert no quantified obligation. Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Comoros and Burundi: no law identified to date — we do not list them as markets and assert nothing about them.