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Data Protection

Support to data protection in Morocco

Co-operation was established as early as 2015 between the Council of Europe and the National Commission for Control of Personal Data Protection of Morocco (CNDP).

Morocco has been Party to the Council of Europe Convention for the protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data (Convention 108) since September 2019, but the CNDP has long before been taking part as observer in the work of the Consultative Committee of Convention 108. It was thus very obvious that in the framework of the Neighbourhood Partnership between the Council of Europe and Morocco, a co-operation programme be designed and implemented with as primary objective to foster the ratification of the Protocol modernising Convention 108 (known as Convention 108+) as well as to support the CNDP’s efforts in enhancing data protection in the Kingdom of Morocco.

The main directions of this programme are:

Supporting the data protection legislative revision
Enhancing the capacities of the CNDP to support it in the delivering of its missions
Supporting the CNDP’s sectorial awareness raising efforts as well as when facing the development and spreading of emerging technologies

This programme is supported by Liechtenstein, Norway and Spain.

Atrás The Moroccan CNDP trains to controls

Two training seminars to control operations in the digital environment were held on Friday 3 and Tuesday 5 March, in visio conference.

The lawyers, IT engineers and members of the Moroccan National commission for control of data protection staff in charge of control were thus able to benefit from the experience and tools developed by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) to analyse web sites and particularly the use of cookies.

They could also address the topic of the terms and conditions of the big digital companies on the basis of an investigation of Microsoft contracts carried out by the EDPS.

These seminars were organised in the framework of the Neighbourhood Partnership between the Council of Europe and the Kingdom of Morocco for 2021_2021 benefitting from the support of Liechtenstein, Norway and Spain.