Law No. 2013-450 on the Protection of Personal Data, sensitive categories of personal data

Loi n° 2013-450, arts. 7, 21 (sensitive categories of personal data)

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In force.

A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 19 September 2026.

What it requires

Obtain ARTCI's prior authorization before processing genetic or medical data and related scientific research, an offense, conviction or court-imposed security measure, or biometric data.
Do not process personal data revealing a person's racial, ethnic or regional origin, political opinion, religious or philosophical belief, trade-union membership, sex life, or genetic data concerning health, unless a listed exception applies.
Where an exception permits processing that data, obtain ARTCI's authorization and design and carry out the processing under its supervision.
Confine processing under the non-profit exception to the body's own members or to people with regular contact related to its purposes, and do not disclose the data to a third party without their consent.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Prohibition, Consent, Biometric

What this law does

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Article 7 requires ARTCI's prior authorization before processing personal data relating to genetic or medical data and to related scientific research, to an offense, a conviction or a security measure imposed by a court, or to biometric data.

Article 21 prohibits, subject to narrow exceptions, any processing that reveals a person's racial, ethnic or regional origin, political opinion, religious or philosophical belief, trade-union membership, sex life, or, more generally, genetic data concerning health.

The prohibition does not apply where the data were manifestly made public by the person concerned, where processing genetic or health data is necessary to protect a vital interest and the person cannot consent, where genetic data is necessary to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim, where a judicial proceeding or a criminal investigation is under way, or where the processing serves the legitimate, membership-only activities of a foundation, association or other non-profit body with a political, philosophical, religious, fraternal or trade-union purpose.

Every case the exceptions permit remains subject to the Protection Body's authorization and supervision of its design and implementation.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

Official English-language rendering of Law No. 2013-450 published by ARTCI
(Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications/TIC de Côte d'Ivoire) the French original circulated on ARTCI's own site is a scanned-image PDF with no extractable text layer, so this rendering, whose translation quality is uneven in places, is the readable copy of the Act, an Internet Archive capture

archived copy

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