The Committee of Ministers (1302nd bis meeting of 13 December 2017) agreed to the request of Mexico to be invited to accede to the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (ETS No. 108) and to its additional Protocol (CETS No. 181).

Mexico is the ninth country from outside Europe that has been invited to accede, after Uruguay, Mauritius, Senegal, Tunisia (already Parties), Morocco, Cabo Verde, Burkina Faso and Argentina (by chronological order).

• Opinion of the Committee on the request for accession by the United Mexican States
• Overview of Convention 108 in the world
• Relevant website: Data Protection