Cabo Verde today acceded to the Council of Europe´s Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, known as “Convention 108”, to its Additional Protocol on transborder data flows and supervisory authorities, and to the Convention on Cybercrime.
The Minister of Justice and Labour of Cabo Verde, Janine Lelis, deposited the accession documents during a ceremony in Strasbourg on the side-lines of a meeting of the Consultative Committee of “Convention 108”, in the presence of the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni.
Cabo Verde has become the fifth non-European state – following Uruguay, Senegal, Mauritius and Tunisia – to accede to the data protection convention, which takes the total number of states parties to the treaty to 52. Another four countries – Morocco, Mexico, Burkina Faso and Argentina – have already been invited to accede and will most likely be the next countries to become parties.
With Cabo Verde´s accession, the Convention on Cybercrime now has 59 states parties. Other countries that have been invited to accede are Colombia, Ghana, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Paraguay, Peru and Tunisia.
Both treaties will enter into force in respect of Cabo Verde on 1 October 2018.
