Page 38 Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and other rights such as freedom of expression, respect for private life, the right to equitable education, etc. Article III – 1 – 4: Protection of essential information infrastructure Each Member State shall adopt such legal measures as they deem necessary to identify the sectors regarded as sensitive for national security and the health of the economy, as well as the ICT systems designed to ensure the functioning of these structures as constituting essential information infrastructure; and, in this regard, introduce more severe sanctions for criminal activities against ICT systems in the sectors concerned and measures to improve vigilance, security and management. Article III – 1 – 5: Harmonization Each Member State shall ensure that the legislative measures adopted in respect of substantive and procedural provisions on cyber crime reflect international best practices and integrate the minimum standards contained in extant legislations in the region at large so as to enhance the possibility of regional harmonization of the said legal measures. Article III – 1 – 6: Double criminality The cardinal principle of cooperation in the application of the law against cross-border crime reposes on the fact that the laws under which such cooperation is sought by each Member State should be uniform in terms of prohibited conduct and application procedure. Each Member State shall adopt such legal measures as respect the principle of double criminality. Article III – 1 – 7: International cooperation Each Member State shall adopt such measures as it deems necessary to foster exchange of information and the sharing of quick, expeditious and reciprocal data by Member States’ organizations and similar organizations of other Member States with responsibility to cause the law to be applied in the territory on bilateral or multilateral basis. Chapter III: National cyber security system Article III – 1 – 8: Culture of security AU Draft0 010111

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