Law No. 2013-450 on the Protection of Personal Data, cross-border transfer

Loi n° 2013-450, arts. 7, 26 (cross-border transfer)

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In force.

A cross border transfer rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 19 September 2026.

What it requires

Before transferring personal data to a third country, confirm that country affords a level of protection of privacy, freedoms and fundamental rights equivalent to or higher than Côte d'Ivoire's.
Obtain ARTCI's prior authorization before implementing any processing that transfers personal data to a third country, and its permission again before the actual transfer takes place.
Expect the Protection Body to monitor a cross-border transfer on a continuing basis in light of its purpose.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Transfer, Access restriction

What this law does

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Article 7 makes the transfer of personal data to a third country subject to ARTCI's prior authorization before implementation. Article 26 conditions that transfer on the destination state affording a level of protection of privacy, freedoms and fundamental rights equivalent to or higher than Côte d'Ivoire's with regard to the processing concerned, and requires the person responsible for the processing to obtain the Protection Body's permission before any actual transfer.

The transfer of personal data to a third country remains subject to the Protection Body's regular monitoring in light of its purpose.

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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

Read from a public archive copy, not the publisher directly. The publisher does not serve this page to automated readers, so a direct fetch was not an option here; how we access sources. Archived February 18, 2026. Publisher's page: https://www.artci.ci/images/stories/pdf-english/lois_english/loi_2013_450_english.pdf

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