From the recent Council of Ministers 63rd Meeting:
IV.2. Bill on the Digital Code
The Minister of Digital has made the economy of the Bill on the Digital Code in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Already amended by the Council of Ministers, he indicated that this Digital Code project also benefited from the comments and recommendations of certain international organizations operating in this sector.
Integrating these concerns, the Experts have resolved to restructure the draft Digital Code by strictly limiting its scope to the digital sector alone.
Thus, the text went from seven to five books, so as to avoid any conflict on the scope with other laws in force, in particular the Law on telecommunications and information and communication technologies. .
Moreover, with the use of digital technology, the Democratic Republic of Congo, like any other country, is faced with new issues and challenges.
These relate in particular to the protection of privacy, to digital sovereignty over the data of its citizens, to the legal validity of the tool, of writing and of electronic evidence in exchanges, to the protection consumers in the context of e-commerce, against the spread of "fake news", and also to the responses to be reserved for malicious acts on information systems and of which natural or legal persons may be victims.
Codification makes it possible to group together legal texts with the aim of ensuring harmonization between the different texts, by establishing a coherent whole. The primary objective is to unify the law, to make it readable and accessible, to facilitate its application and interpretation, concluded the Minister of Digital.
After debate and deliberations, the Council adopted this Bill.