According to Art. 75 of Law No. 182, Egyptian small and medium-sized (SMEs) enterprises are given the right to obtain at least 20% of available government contracts annually. This has been the case with the previous law as well (Tenders Law 89 of 1998).

Egypt is a signatory of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) of 1996, but is not a signatory of its 2015 expansion (ITA II).

DRC has not adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Signatures.

DRC has not adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Commerce.

DRC has not signed the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.

DRC does not have a legal framework that applies consumer protection to online transactions.

It is reported that the de minimis threshold, that is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties, is USD 100, below the 200 USD threshold recommended by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

A product covered by a certificate of conformity with the standards or technical regulations in force may still be subject to a conformity check when it is imported into the DRC, unless there is either a mutual recognition agreement or an explicit collaboration between the body that carried out the conformity assessment abroad and the Congolese Control Office (OCC). Even in the case of such an agreement or collaboration, the OCC may carry out the check again if it considers that, among other things, risks of deterioration of the product are possible during its transport.

It is reported that in December 2017, DRC’s Minister of Posts, Telecommunications, and Information ordered the Director-General of Africell, one of the four telecom companies in the country, to suspend Internet and SMS in the country. After the commencement of opposition demonstrations, a three-day shutdown took place. It is also reported that in 2018, the government caused several network disruptions and an eventual Internet shutdown.

It is reported that in 2017, the Congolese authorities ordered internet capacity be slowed down so that it could not be used to transmit images via social media. The telecoms chief regulator listed social media he wanted the measure to target, including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Twitter. It is also reported that in 2018 the government interrupted several times access to online media and social networks such as WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, and SMS.

The indicator "6.2.4 - Government Internet shut down in practice" of the V-Dem Dataset, which measures whether the government has the technical capacity to actively make internet service cease, thus interrupting domestic access to the internet or whether the government has decided to do so, has a score of 2 in the DRC. This corresponds to "The government shut down domestic access to the Internet several times this year."

With the Law No. 013/2002 of 2002, which governs the telecommunications sector, the government is given the power to take over the means of communication in the interest of national security. According to Art. 46 of the law, the State may prohibit the use of telecommunication facilities, in full or in part, for any period of time, as it deems fit, in the interests of public security or national defense, the public telecommunications service, or for any other reason. In June 2018, the Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Information, signed a Ministerial Order strengthening the control of online media (Ministerial Order No 011/CAB/M-CM/LOM/2018).

According to Art. 92 of Law No. 20/017 of 25 November 2020 relating to Telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies, any operator of a telecommunications network open to the public or any provider of telecommunications services Internet access is required to identify its subscribers at the time of subscription to telecommunications services., In addition, Article 93, strengthens by indicating that no connection to the network can be granted without prior identification. Moreover, according to Art. 94 the State reserves the right to interrupt any connection of the subscriber who is not or has been misidentified.

A basic legal framework on intermediary liability beyond copyright infringement is absent in DRC's law and jurisprudence.