Senate : Medical Research, Cyberspace, Other Bills Tabled

Some four bills have been brought before the Senate for scrutiny. The legal instruments were tabled during a plenary sitting of April 5, 2022 chaired by the Senate’s President, Marcel Niat Njifenji. The four bills are in the domains of guarding cyberspace, solar technologies, medical research and protecting national roads asset. 
The first bill prays the President of the Republic to ratify the Amended Framework Agreement on the Establishment of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) signed in Yaounde on October 2, 2020. ISA is an inter-State platform seeking to facilitate access to solar technologies and adequate funding for their acquisition, installation and operation, as well as long term maintenance. The document aims to collectively address key common challenges of countries with high solar potential, to the massive and rapid scaling up of such energy in line with the needs of member States. 
The second bill seeks to authorise the President of the Republic to proceed with Cameroon’s Accession to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, adopted on November 23, 2001 in Budapest, Hungary. The Convention serves as a guideline for signatory States in the development and modernization of their respective legislations on cybercrime, and also lays down the conditions for international cooperation and mutual assistance against cybercrime. The Convention will enable Cameroon, to strengthen its local legislation in this area, particularly the December 12, 2010 law on cybersecurity and cybercrime, which will allow for the better deployment of ANTIC and ART. 
Another tabled legal instrument relate...