Law / Economic Community of West African States
ECOWAS Supplementary Act on Personal Data Protection, transfer to a non-member country
ECOWAS Supplementary Act A/SA.1/01/10, art. 36, transfer to a non-member country
A cross border transfer rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Transfer
As of .
What it requires
- Transfer personal data to a country outside ECOWAS only where that country provides an adequate level of protection for privacy, freedoms and the fundamental rights of individuals.
- Inform the data protection Authority before transferring personal data to such a country.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The independent data protection Authority that each Member State is to establish under Article 14, which is responsible for ensuring that personal data is processed in compliance with the Supplementary Act.
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does the Revised Supplementary Act on the Protection of Personal Data in the ECOWAS Region, which the Authority of Heads of State and Government adopted on , replace the 2010 Supplementary Act A/SA.1/01/10 in the Community's Official Journal, and from which day?
What this law does
Article 36 permits a data controller to transfer personal data to a country outside ECOWAS only where that country provides an adequate level of protection for privacy, freedoms and the fundamental rights of individuals. Article 36 also requires the data controller to inform the Data Protection Authority before any such transfer.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app processes personal data.