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Penal Code, pornographic and manipulated image or representation offenses via an information system

Code pénal Loi n° 20-038/AU du 29 décembre 2020, promulguée par Décret n° 21-018/PR du 16 février 2021, Chapitre 4 (De la cybercriminalité), Section 2, arts. 462-465

In force since .

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

Enforcement body
Ministère Public (public prosecutor), Union of the Comoros
Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
General

What it requires

  • Do not produce, record, offer, distribute, or publish, through an information system, an image or representation of a pornographic, erotic, or child-pornographic character, whether or not the representation depicts a real person.
  • Do not produce, distribute, or make available a counterfeited or manipulated image, video, or representation that harms a person's dignity, through an information system.
  • Do not knowingly possess an image or representation of a child-pornographic, erotic character stored on an information system or a data-storage medium.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
NIST AI 600-1
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

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Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Article 462 punishes producing, offering, or distributing a pornographic or morally offensive image or representation via an information system with one to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 Comorian francs (two to seven years and 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 francs for a counterfeited or manipulated image harming a person's dignity); article 463 punishes procuring, importing, or exporting a child-pornographic image or representation with two to five years and 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs; article 464 punishes intentional possession of the same with one to three years and 2,000 to 4,000,000 francs.

Penalty structure

The range spans four separate offenses (articles 462-464) with different tiers; the lowest minimum (article 464, possession) and the highest cap (articles 462 second paragraph and 463) are both given here rather than averaged.

Rule
Fixed only
As of
Minimum
2,000
Currency
KMF
Fixed cap
10,000,000

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Articles 462 to 464 punish producing, distributing, and possessing a pornographic, counterfeited, or child-pornographic image or representation through an information system, and state no duty to create, keep, or produce a log or record of anything.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Article 462 punishes with one to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 Comorian francs whoever produces, records, offers, makes available, disseminates, or publishes, through an information system or a data-storage medium, an image or a representation of a pornographic, erotic, or morally offensive character.

Its second paragraph separately punishes with two to seven years' imprisonment and a fine of 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 Comorian francs whoever produces, records, counterfeits, or distributes a counterfeit image, video image, or representation of that character that harms a person's dignity, through the same means.

Article 463 punishes, with two to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Comorian francs, procuring, importing, or exporting an image or a representation of a child-pornographic, erotic character through an information system, and article 464 punishes intentional possession of the same at one to three years and 2,000 to 4,000,000 Comorian francs.

None of these articles limits the offending material to a photograph of a real person; the chapter's own definitions section (article 449) defines a covered representation broadly, as any representation of facts, information, or concepts in a form amenable to computerized processing, so a computer-generated or otherwise synthetic image or representation of the kind these articles describe falls within the same wording used for a captured one.

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