REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON PEACE – WORK – FATHERLAND
LAW No. 2025/010 OF 15 JUL 2025
# LAY DOWN SUBCONTRACTING REGULATIONS IN CAMEROON
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The Parliament deliberated and adopted, the President of the Republic hereby enacts the law set out below:
# PART I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER I
PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF APPLICATION
I - PURPOSE
SECTION 1 - This law lays down subcontracting regulations in the Republic of Cameroon. It defines the rules applicable to the conclusion, execution, suspension, termination, supervision, control and regulation of subcontracting activities or agreements.
SECTION 2 - This law seeks to prioritize, encourage and promote the development and competitiveness of national small and medium-sized enterprises and, in carrying out their subcontracting activities, to guarantee their legal security, with a view to contributing to the country's economic and social development.
SECTION 3 - Subcontracting activities, as defined in Section 8 below, contribute to the transfer of technological skills from large companies to small and medium-sized enterprises, to the development of local capacities, as well as to the development and use of local resources.
II - SCOPE OF APPLICATION
SECTION 4 - Subcontracting, which is the subject of this law, concerns part of the main activity, or all or part of related or ancillary activities. It may take one of the following forms:
- capacity subcontracting
- specialty subcontracting
- contract subcontracting.
SECTION 5 - Except otherwise provided by laws governing some activity sectors or some professions, subcontracting is permitted in every sector of national economic activity, in particular, the following:
- industrial sector
- agro-industrial sector
- energy sector
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- transport sector
- mining, metallurgy and iron and steel sectors;
- forestry and timber sector
- water and sanitation sector;
- health sector
- cotton, textiles and leather sector;
- digital and technological innovation sector;
- civil engineering and public works sector
- tourism sector.
SECTION 6
(1) The provisions of this law shall apply in particular to:
(a) contracts between companies, in particular commercial contracts between private law natural or legal persons;
(b) contracts entered into by public enterprises and public establishments;
(c) contracts entered into in connection with the delegation of public services;
(d) contracts in the mining, gas, oil and energy sectors;
(e) projects supported by the State in terms of tax or customs benefits and/or incentives;
(f) contracts entered into by regional and local authorities.
(2) The provisions of this law shall apply to public contracts and public-private partnership contracts, subject to the provisions of the specific instruments governing these sectors of activity.
(3) The provisions of this law shall not apply to contracts signed abroad by Cameroon's diplomatic missions and consular posts.
SECTION 7
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6 above, this law shall only apply to contracts concluded within the framework of international or financing agreements signed between the State and technical and financial partners insofar as the provisions thereof do not conflict with the said agreements.
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PRESIDENCE DE LA REPUBLIQUE