Law 009/PR/2015 on cybersecurity and cybercrime

Summary

Chad's framework law on cybersecurity, setting the security framework for electronic information services and electronic communications networks and services and defining and punishing ICT-related offences. It gives the ministry responsible for electronic communications the task of drawing up a national cybersecurity policy and the National Agency for IT Security and Electronic Certification (ANSICE) responsibility for regulating electronic security and coordinating the fight against cybercrime. It requires operators and service providers to take technical and organisational security measures, keep communications confidential and retain connection and traffic data for ten years; information system operators must manage risks through standardised systems approved by ANSICE, and operators' networks are subject to annual security audits. It also covers investigative powers, offences against systems and data, illegal content, corporate liability and international cooperation.

Information

Jurisdiction

Chad

Issuing body

Assemblée nationale du Tchad

Type

Law

Available languages

French, Arabic

Topics

• Governance and coordination
• Cybercrime and criminal law
• Telecommunications
• Certification

Notes

Passed by the National Assembly on 15 December 2014 and promulgated in N'Djamena on 10 February 2015; bilingual French and Arabic text. The link leads to the scanned copy published by the Electronic Communications and Postal Regulatory Authority (ARCEP), because the ANSICE website is protected by an anti-bot check. ANSICE was set up by Law No. 006/PR/2015, amended in 2023. Chad began drafting a national cybersecurity strategy in 2022, which does not yet appear to have been published.

Assemblée nationale du Tchad. (2015). Loi n°009/PR/2015 portant sur la cybersécurité et la lutte contre la cybercriminalité (Loi n°009/PR/2015). https://arcep.td/sites/default/files/LOI-09.pdf

Assemblée nationale du Tchad. "Loi n°009/PR/2015 portant sur la cybersécurité et la lutte contre la cybercriminalité." 10 February 2015. https://arcep.td/sites/default/files/LOI-09.pdf.

@misc{td_loi_009_pr_2015_cybersecurite_cybercriminalite,
  author       = {{Assemblée nationale du Tchad}},
  title        = {{Loi n°009/PR/2015 portant sur la cybersécurité et la lutte contre la cybercriminalité}},
  year         = {2015},
  note         = {Loi n°009/PR/2015},
  url          = {https://arcep.td/sites/default/files/LOI-09.pdf},
  urldate      = {2026-11-02}
}