Equatorial Guinea

Article 2 applies the Law to the personal data of any citizen recorded on any medium, in both the public and private sectors, whenever the processing occurs, or the controller is subject to Equatoguinean law, within the national territory.

Article 10 requires clear, unequivocal consent for processing, requires express written consent for a sensitive category (race, tribe or ethnicity, health, sexual life, religious, political or union creed), and lets consent be revoked without retroactive effect.

Article 13 gives every citizen a right of access to their own data within twelve months, a right to challenge automated evaluations, a right to consult the public data-protection register, a right to rectification and cancellation within fifteen days of a request, and a right to compensation for damage, enforceable in the ordinary courts for a privately held file.

Article 27 bars transferring personal data to a country without an equivalent level of legal protection unless the Órgano Rector de Protección de Datos Personales grants prior authorisation.

Article 38 sorts infractions into minor, serious, and very serious, and Article 42 sets escalating fines for each tier: 200,000 to 500,000 FCFA for a minor infraction, 500,001 to 5,000,000 FCFA for a serious one, and 5,000,001 to 15,000,000 FCFA for a very serious one, alongside non-monetary sanctions such as suspending a file's processing, seizing equipment, or permanently closing the premises.

Article 39 assigns sanctioning power to the Minister of Telecommunications and New Technologies pending the Órgano Rector's own creation by decree, and Article 30 gives the Órgano Rector, once created, inspection and sanctioning powers of its own. The Law's own final provision ties commencement to twenty days after its publication in the Official Gazette, a date this copy does not state, so no effective date beyond the 22 July 2016 signing is recorded.

Annex VII Article 8 gives an author the exclusive right to reproduce, translate, adapt, distribute, and publicly perform a work.

Article 15 carves out a free-use exception for informational purposes: without the author's authorisation or any payment, but subject to crediting the source and the author's name where the source states it, any person may reproduce by print or audiovisual press an economic, political, or religious article published in a newspaper or periodical, or a broadcast work of the same character, in any case where the right of reproduction, broadcast, or communication to the public has not been expressly reserved; reproduce or make accessible, for reporting a current event, a work seen or heard in the course of that event, to the extent the informational purpose justifies; and reproduce by print or audiovisual press a political speech, lecture, address, or sermon delivered in public, or courtroom pleadings, for informational purposes, unless the author has expressly reserved the right.

Authors retain the right to publish a collection of such works. Equatorial Guinea is a signatory government named in the 2015 Act and an OAPI member state, so Annex VII applies to it directly as the Organization's uniform copyright law.