The Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Law does not provide any fair use/fair dealing model for copyright exceptions. However, Arts. 33-53 provide a list of wide exceptions. These include: materials that are printed, audio, audio-visual or any other form prepared for school or university education; work converted for personal or family purposes; usage of decorative or illustrative drawing of a literary or artistic work in a publication, in an audio or audio video recording or in audio or audio video programs meant for teaching or professional training as long as it is intended to achieve the targeted purpose; free acting or performing of a work; libraries and document keeping centers, not aiming at making direct or indirect commercial profits, can reproduce a work without the author’s or right owner’s permission in response to a request from another library or document keeping center, or to maintain the work’s copy, or to compensate a damaged, lost or void one; and mass media institutions reproducing, circulating or conveying to the public articles on daily events published by newspapers, radio or television, without permission from the author or reward to him, provided that the author and the source are indicated, unless there is an express provision prohibiting its use for such purposes.

It is reported that Algeria lacks proper enforcement efforts against copyright piracy, including online and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) piracy. In addition, it is reported that the rate of unlicensed software installation in the country was 82% in 2017 (above the 56% rate of the Middle Eastern and African countries), for an estimated commercial value of unlicensed software of USD 70 million. Moreover, despite having a legal framework on copyright, it is reported that there are major holes in the framework for enforcing copyrights, including clear guidance on Internet service providers' (ISP) liability and effective provisions for the takedown of infringing websites.

It is reported that there are concerns that Algeria does not provide adequate judicial remedies in cases of patent infringement.

Chapter 3 of Law No. 22-18 establishes the Algerian Agency for Investment Promotion. The Agency, among other activities, should ensure that the investors comply with the legislation in force and the standards relating, in particular, to environment and public health protection, to competition, work and transparency of accounting, tax and financial information (Art. 15). The controls are done both before the investment (during recording and processing of investment files) and after (during monitoring of investment projects).

Under Decree No. 20-332, news sites must be based physically in Algeria. Art. 6 establishes that "the online information activity is subject to the publication through an electronic site, whose hosting is exclusively domiciled, physically and logically in Algeria, with a domain name extension ".dz"."

Art. 85 of the Preferential Decree No. 15-247 requires that, in circumstances when relying on national production and/or entities is not possible, foreign companies bidding alone for a public tender are obliged to subcontract at least 30% of the contract price to Algerian companies. In the prior public procurement law, there were no specifications in terms of the percentage that foreign bidders should subcontract to local companies. Therefore, theoretically enabling them to provide their local Algerian partners with a lower than 30% of the total contract in order to comply with the Algerian public procurement rule that obliges foreign bidders collaborate with local entities.

The Presidential Decree No. 10-236 has been repealed in September 2015 by Presidential Decree No. 10-247. However, pursuant to Art. 218 of Presidential Decree No. 15-247, Art. 23 of the Presidential Decree No. 10-236 remains in force pending the publication of the new implementing regulations. Art. 23 stipulates that:
- Relating to procurements of goods, a 25% preference margin is granted to locally manufactured products upon receipt of a certificate of Algerian origin;
- Relating to the procurements of services, a 25% preference margin is granted to enterprises under Algerian law as well as to mixed groups (i.e. comprising both Algerian and foreign members) up to the limit of the part owned by the Algerian enterprise in the group.

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

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

According to Art. 5 of Presidential Decree No. 15-247, in order to ensure the efficiency of the order and the proper use of public funds, public contracts must respect the principles of free access to public procurement, equal treatment of candidates regardless of nationality, and transparency of procedures. However, Art. 85 of the Presidential Decree also requires that the governmental purchaser, in the process of drafting the eligibility criteria and the offer evaluation procedure, must consider whether national production and/or national entities can meet the needs of the contract – and therefore by that extent also favour batches or products that can be subcontracted or acquired on the local Algerian market. In circumstances when relying on national production and/or entities is not possible, foreign companies can bid with certain limitations. Imported products may only be used in circumstances when the equivalent of the products is either not available at a national level or the national products do not possess the acceptable quality standards.

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

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

Vanuatu has adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Commerce.

The Telecommunications and Radiocommunications (Consumer Protection) Regulations Order No.157 of 2015 provides a comprehensive consumer protection framework that also applies to online transactions.