ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES COMMUNAUTE ECONOMIQUE DES ETATS DE L'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF THE AUTHORITY OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT Ahuja, 16th February 2010 SUPPLEMENTARY ACT A1SA.1f01f10 ON PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION WITHIN ECOWAS THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, MINDFUL of Articles 7, 8 and 9 of the ECOWAS Treaty as revised on the establishment of the Authority of Heads of State and Government and defining its composition and functions: MINDFUL of the Supplementary Protocol AlSP.1f06f06 amendment of the revised Treaty of ECOWAS: establishing the MINDFUL of Article 4 paragraph g of the said Treaty relating to the Member States' adherence to the promotion and protection of human and peoples' rights in accordance with the provisions of the African Chaner on Human and Peoples' Rights; MINDFUL of Article 27, 32 and 33 of the said Treaty relating to Science and Technology, and on the areas of Communication and Telecommunications; MINDFUL of Article 57 of the said Treaty on judicial and legal cooperation, wt1ich prescribes that the Member States undertake to promote judicial cooperation with a view to harmonizing judicial and legal systems: MINDFUL of ECOWAS Supplementary Act AlSA 1101/07 of 19 January 2007 on the harmonization of the policies and regulatory framework of the Information and Communication Technologies sector (lCT); CONSIDERING the important progress made in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (lCT) as well as the Internet which increasingly raises the problem of personal data protection; CONSCIOUS that a technology such as the Internet, wrth its facilities of profiling and tracing of individuals, consmutes a favourable vector for gathering and processing personal data: