The country lacks a comprehensive data protection law. However, there are some laws with data protection rules, such as Law No. 3/2017 of 09 January - Electronic Transactions Law and the African Union Convention on Cyber-Security and Personal Data Protection. Towards the end of 2019, Mozambique revised its Penal Code, introducing provisions related to the invasion of privacy.

Mozambique legal framework by means of the Electronic Transactions Act requires that any public or private person who requires, collects, processes, or electronically stores personal information from or about a data subject shall appoint a data protection officer to ensure compliance with the data protection rules.

The Copyright Act does not incorporate any provision that refers to "fair dealing" (reasonable treatment).
On the contrary, the Copyright Act defines the exceptions and limitations in a detailed manner, and these exceptions are under the three-step test of the Berne Convention.

Mozambique did not accede to the WIPO Copyright Treaty.

Mozambique did not accede to the WIPO Performances and Phonogram Treaty.

There is no comprehensive regulatory framework for trade secrets in Mozambique, but general principles applicable to trade secrets are covered by the Industrial Property Code. Article 213 (3) considers it an offence of unlawful competition to remove, disclose or use confidential data or information relating to the production or use of certain products or processes or relating to the provision of services of a competitor, without their consent and in a manner which is contrary to honest commercial practices, provided that such information:
- is secret, in the sense that it is not known or easily accessible to persons in circles that normally deal with the kind of information in question, either as a whole or in the specific configuration and assembly of its components;
- has a commercial value because it is secret;
- has been subject to reasonable precautions, taken by the person lawfully in control of the information, under the circumstances, to keep it secret.

There is a state-owned enterprise (Tmcel - Moçambique Telecom, SA), which was once the monopoly holder in the sector, but no longer leads the market. Vodacom, SA remains the operator holding the largest market share, with 49% of subscribers.

It is reported that no law or policy mandate both functional and accounting separation for the operator with significant market power.

According to the legal framework there are no discriminatory conditions applied to foreign companies to obtain licences to operate in telecommunications sector nor strict licencing requirement other than the standard ones. Besides, there are no records of complaints by any operator regarding any strict licencing requirements.

It is reported that there is minimum capital a requirement to obtain a licence:
- 70.000.000 Meticals for unified licenses (approx. USD 1,090,000);
- 56.000.000 to 86.000 Meticals for telecommunications network (approx. USD 877,000 to USD 1,300);
- 11.250.000 to 43.000 Meticals for telecommunications services (approx. USD 176,000 to USD 6,700);
- 34.000 to 113.000 Meticals for supply, installation and maintenance, import, distribution and sale of telecommunications equipment (approx. USD 530 to USD 1,790);
- 25.000 to 55.000 Meticals for numbering licenses (approx. USD 390 to USD 860).

Mozambique has not attached the WTO Telecom Reference Paper to its schedule of commitments.

Although Mozambican laws proclaim the need for foreign investors to demonstrate the economic and social benefits to places where they propose to invest, such screenings (through the Investment Law and Tax Benefits Code) are not non-transparent, uncertain, or discriminatory. It is a legal requirement that the Government uses to ensure the projects presented by the investors (benefiting from tax incentives and other exemptions and incentives) are effectively beneficial to the surrounding communities.

Currently, the incentives granted to the investments are no longer given on a case-by-case basis to privileged investors like it used to happen in the past, but instead, based on the law, which clarified the situation.

Although foreign patents might be recognized/ registered in Mozambique (upon the payment of a fee amounting to MZN 5,400, equivalent to USD 84), there is a requirement to have a local representative when applying for the registration.

According to the Industrial Property Code (Decree no. 47/2015) if the applicant is a resident (based or with registered offices) in Mozambique, the application for registration may be filed directly with Intellectual Property Institute (IPI) with no need to appoint an Intellectual Property official agent. On the contrary, if the applicant is not domiciled or resident in Mozambique, he/she must be represented by a Mozambican Intellectual Property Agent.

Mozambique is not a signatory of the WTO GPA