Page 52 corporate bodies does not exclude that of the physical persons who are the authors or accomplices of the same offenses. Article III – 29: Each Member State of the African Union shall take the legislative measures required to submit media related offenses committed through the internet with the exception of the offenses committed by the media on the internet, to the common law regime of criminal liability. Chapter III: Adapting certain sanctions to the Information and Communication Technologies Section 1: Penal sanctions Article III – 30: Each Member State of the African Union shall take the measures required to ensure that the offenses defined in this Convention attract effective, proportional and deterrent penal sanctions. Article III – 31: Each Member State of the African Union shall take the measures required to ensure that the offenses defined in this Convention attract maximum prison sentence of one (1) to five (5) years at least. Article III – 32: Each Member State of the African Union shall take the measures required to ensure a corporate body declared liable in terms of this Convention is subject to effective, proportional and deterrent sanction which include penal and non-penal fines. Section II: Other penal sanctions Article III – 33: Each Member State of the African Union shall take the measures required to ensure that, in the event of conviction for an offense committed by means of digital AU Draft0 010111