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Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense the fact, even out of negligence, of processing or causing the
processing of personal data without having undertaken the preliminary formalities for
the processing as prescribed by the law on personal data enacted to that effect in each
Member State.
Article III – 12:
Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense the fact of producing, selling, importing, possessing,
disseminating, offering, ceding or circulating a computer equipment, programme, any
device or data designed or specially adapted to commit an offense, or a password,
access code or similar computerized data allowing access to the whole or part of a
computer system.
Article III – 13:
Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense the fact of participating in an association formed or in an
understanding established with a view to preparing or committing one or several of the
offense (s) defined in this Convention.
Section III: Content related offenses
Article III – 14:
Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense the fact of producing, registering, offering, circulating,
disseminating and transmitting a picture or a representation of infant pornography by
means of a computer system.
Article III – 15:
Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to
set up as a penal offense the fact of procuring for oneself or for another person,
importing or causing to be imported and exporting or causing to be exported a picture or
representation of infant pornography by means of a computer system.
Article III – 16:
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