Art. 38 of the Law No. 8-2001 mandates a residency requirement for the publication director of the newspapers, also online.

The Republic of Congo is not a party to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) nor does it have observer status.

According the Art. 52 of the Law No. 8-2001, when a press publishing company is incorporated, the majority of shares up to 51% are reserved for Congolese citizens. This applies also to online newspapers.

The Republic of Congo is not a signatory of the 1996 World Trade Organization (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) nor the 2015 expansion (ITA II).

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

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

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

Comoros lacks a comprehensive framework for consumer protection that applies to online transactions.

Comoros does not implement any de minimis threshold, which is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties. However, there is reportedly an informal arrangement for a de minimis threshold of USD 116.

According to Arts. 13-19 of the Decree No. 15-093/PR, terminal equipment and radioelectric installations may only be manufactured, imported, sold or distributed in the domestic market if they have been approved in advance by the National Regulation Authority of Information and Communications Technology (Autorité Nationale de Régulation des TIC (ANRTIC)). The applicant needs to send an application detailing information on the equipment and installations submitted for approval to ANRTIC. The approval regime aims to confirm the compliance of the products with essential standards: user's security, security of personnel operating electronic communication networks, protection of networks (in particular exchanges of control and management information), suitability of equipment to operate with the network, proper use of the electrical radio frequency spectrum.

According to Arts. 13-19 of the Decree No. 15-093/PR, terminal equipment and radioelectric installations may only be imported if they have been approved in advance by the National Regulation Authority of Information and Communications Technology (ANRTIC). The applicant needs to send an application detailing information on the equipment and installations submitted for approval to ANRTIC.
According to Art. 1 of the Decree, terminal equipment is defined as any device, equipment or set of equipment intended to be connected to a network termination point for the purpose of transmitting, processing or receiving information. Only equipment providing access to electronic communications services is covered, excluding audiovisual communications services. Radioelectric installations is defined as any transmission system, switching or routing equipment and other resources used to transmit signals by cable, regardless of the type of information transmitted.

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 3 in Comoros. This corresponds to "Rarely but there have been a few occasions throughout the year when the government shut down domestic access to Internet."

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

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