Data-center law in Comoros

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Comoros's general permitting regime for a facility such as a data centre runs through its 1994 environment framework law, Loi-cadre n° 94-018/AF relative à l'Environnement (as amended by Loi n° 95-007 of 19 June 1995), which conditions the agreement needed for a development or urban-planning project, public or private, on an environmental impact study, and separately makes a construction permit under the code of urban planning and housing contingent on the Ministry of the Environment's advice where the planned construction poses a foreseeable environmental risk.

Comoros has no dedicated data-centre statute, and no electricity-code or investment-code provision naming a data centre or a comparable large electricity consumer appears among the sources examined: the electricity code, the 2023 electricity-energy code, and the 2020 investment code are indexed by the Ministry of Justice's own legislation site, but every available copy of each is a scanned image PDF with no extractable text, so their substantive content stays unconfirmed rather than absent.

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Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Environmental review

What impact review must precede approval, and who leads it?

Environment Framework Law, mandatory environmental impact study

In force

Loi-cadre n° 94-018/AF relative à l'Environnement (as amended by Loi n° 95-007 du 19 juin 1995), arts. 11-14

Applies to both

Article 11 requires that the approval application for a development or planning project, including an urban-planning plan, carried out by a natural or legal person, private or public, be accompanied by an environmental impact study. Article 12 requires that study to analyze the site and its surroundings, assess the project's foreseeable natural and human-environment consequences, and present measures to reduce or eliminate the harmful effects, along with alternatives not retained.

Article 14 leaves a Council-of-Ministers decree to list the categories of work exempt from the requirement by the nature of the activity, and to set the study's preparation, review, and public-information procedure.

The same law's article 56 separately conditions the construction permit the code of urban planning and housing requires, for an administration, public service, concession-holder, commune, or private person, on the absence of foreseeable environmental risk, after consulting the regional environmental services.

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