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

Arts. 39 and 40 of Law No. 56/V/98 provide that local and foreign media companies or organisations are subject to compulsory registration with the media department of the government. Art. 3 clarifies that this applies also to online media.
Pursuant to the provisions of Art. 40, the Government enacted Decree-Law No. 47/2018, which regulates the registration of media companies in general. Art. 5 of this Decree-Law states that the companies subject to registration include: periodicals, non-periodicals and digital media or companies using any type of electronic process; news companies; advertising agencies; operators of audiovisual on-demand and distribution services; organisations carrying out opinion polls and surveys; among others.
In addition, Art. 24 of Law No. 73/VII/2010 provides that public or private organisations carrying out press, publishing and news agency activities shall be subject to registration before starting their activities. Art. 2 clarifies that this also applies to online activities.

Commercial operators, i.e. importers, exporters, wholesalers, retailers, commercial agents, marketers or traders, are subject to a licensing and registration system under Decree-Law No. 69/2005 (Arts. 19.1, 21.1 and 22.1) and Decree-Law No. 30/2009 (Art. 5). Commercial operators have to register with the Department responsible for commerce at the Conservatory of Commercial Registry and obtain an operating permit.

Under Art. 23.1 of Decree-Law No. 71/95, radiocommunications transmitter or transmitter-receiver equipment cannot be sold unless the radiocommunications supervisory authority has approved it. Yet, third-party certification from Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) that the regulator recognises is accepted (Art. 23.4).
In addition, it is reported that telecommunication equipment requires an import permit that has been raised against a certificate of conformity, and a certificate of conformity must accompany electrical goods. A Declaration of Conformity confirming that goods to be imported conform to the applied national and international standards is required for certain goods. CE-marked products are accepted as conforming to the required standards.
It is also reported that the Multisectoral Regulatory Agency for the Economy (ARME) and the Regulatory Agency for Health (ERIS) are responsible for inspecting and certifying products entering the market.

According to Art. 2.2.4 and Art. 205.1 of Decree-Law No. 39/2019, the de minimis threshold, that is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties, is 10.000 Escudos (approx. USD 100). This is below the 200 USD threshold recommended by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Art. 4 of the Commercial Companies Code states that any company that does not have its effective headquarters in Cabo Verde but wishes to carry out its activities there for more than one year must establish a permanent representation. The previous Commercial Companies Code contained the same requirement in Art. 106.

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

In accordance with Art. 7 of Regulation No. 001/CR-ARC/2019, organisations engaged in advertising activities may not start their activities without registering with the ARC (Media Regulatory Authority). According to Art. 3, the registration shall be accompanied by the following documents:
- An application containing information about the advertising agency (name, address and contact details of the person in charge);
- A copy of the identity card of the person in charge of the advertising agency and, in the case of representation, of the legal representative;
- A current certificate of trade registration;
- In the case of a public limited company, an itemised list of the shareholders and an indication of the number of shares held by them; and
- Proof of payment from banking services.
The Advertising Code applies to any form of advertising, regardless of the medium used to disseminate it.

Cabo Verde has a copyright regime under Decree-Law No. 1/2009. However, the exceptions do not follow the fair use or fair dealing model, therefore limiting the lawful use of copyrighted work by others. Art. 62 lists the exceptions, which include: the purposes of research or private study by the person using the work; the use in a private event that is not for profit and for which entry is not charged; the review or news reporting; the reproduction by photographic or similar processes, when carried out for didactic purposes by public or private libraries or centres; the use in documentation files of general interest or public institutions with a scientific or technological vocation; or the use by educational establishments; the reproduction of works, permanently exposed to the public through images or reports for academic use; the reproduction of an arrangement or translation exclusively for individual and private use; quotations from copyright work and critics; speeches and lectures before the media; performance of hymns, as well as works of a religious character; private reproduction of an arrangement or translation exclusively for an individual; among others.

Cabo Verde has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Cabo Verde has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Cabo Verde lacks a comprehensive framework in place that provides effective protection of trade secrets, but there are limited measures addressing some issues related to them. Art. 271 of Legislative Decree No. 4/2007 of 20 August 2007, approving the Intellectual Property Code (Decreto-Legislativo No. 4/2007, de 20 de Agosto, que aprova o Código da Propriedade Intelectual) states that it is an administrative offence to disclose, acquire or use a competitor's business secrets without their consent, provided that the information:
- is secret, in the sense that it is not generally known or easily accessible, in its entirety or in the exact configuration and connection of its constituent elements, to persons in the circles that normally deal with the type of information in question;
- has commercial value by virtue of its secrecy;
- has been the subject of considerable efforts, appropriate to the circumstances, by the person lawfully in control of the information to keep it secret.

There is no obligation for passive infrastructure sharing in Cabo Verde to deliver telecom services to end users, nor is passive infrastructure sharing practised in the mobile and fixed sectors based on commercial agreements.

The government directly owns 3.4% of the shares in Cabo Verde Telecom. The government also indirectly owns shares in Cabo Verde Telecom for a total of 78.6% of shares through the following public companies: National Institute of Social Security (INPS) (57.9%), Airports and Aviation Security (ASA) (20%) and Cape Verde Post Office (CCV) (0.7%).

Cabo Verde does not mandate functional separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market. However, there has been an obligation to separate the accounts since 2005. According to Art. 39 of Legislative Decree No. 7/2005, operators who provide publicly available electronic communications networks or services and enjoy special or exclusive rights for the provision of services in other sectors must:
- Have a separate accounting system for the activities of providing electronic communications networks or services, which must be subject to an independent audit to be carried out by an entity to be appointed by the "Autoridade Reguladora Nacional" (ARN, National Regulatory Authority) or accepted by it; and
- Create legally separate entities for the corresponding activities to identify, based on the respective calculations and the allocation methods used, all the elements of expenditure and revenue linked to these activities, including a detailed breakdown of fixed assets and structural costs.