COTE D’IVOIRE LAW AND PRACTICE Contributed by: Abdourahim Bodeen Diallo, Albert Dione, Tokpanan Doré, Joane-Dominique Bah, Thierno Moustapha Diallo, Mamadou Billo Barry and Nasrine Akrah, Thiam & Associés
This was supplemented by Decree No 2014-451 of 9 July 2014 setting out the implementing rules, and Decree No 2015-79 of 4 February 2015 setting out the procedures for declarations and submission of applications, granting and withdrawing authorisation for the processing of personal data. As a member state of the African Union, Côte d’Ivoire also applies the African Union Convention on Cyber - security and Personal Data Protection which it ratified in 2023.
To the authors’ knowledge, the national law and its implementing decree have no extraterritorial scope. However, the law requires prior authorisation for the transfer of personal data to a third country ensuring a higher or equivalent level of protection of privacy, fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals with regard to the processing of such data. The request must be submitted by an Ivorian natural person or a legal entity under Ivorian law with guar - antees of protection, conservation and confidentiality of said data.
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