The 8th T-CY plenary session will be held on 5 and 6 December 2012 in Strasbourg. On the agenda: Assessment of Articles 16, 17, 29 and 30 - discussion and adoption of report; (b) Transborder access to data - report of the Ad-hoc Group. Due to the Xmas Market period, it is strongly recommended that participants arrange hotel accommodation at an early stage. Agenda

Between April and July 2012, Malta, Georgia, Austria, Japan and Belgium ratified the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime.

The 7th T-CY plenary session was held on 4 and 5 June 2012 in Strasbourg. Meeting report

On 23 November 2011 the Cybercrime Convention marked its 10th Anniversary. Octopus and 10th anniversary conference

Germany ratified the Additional Protocol on Xenophobia and Racism (CETS 189) (10 June 2011, Strasbourg). The protocol shall enter into force in respect of Germany on 1st October 2011. Chart of signatures, ratifications and accessions to the Convention

The Secretary to T-CY took part in the 4th European Dialogue on Internet Governance - EuroDIG 2011 (31 May, Belgrade) Programme Press release

United Kingdom ratified the Convention on Cybercrime (25 May 2011, Strasbourg).
United Kingdom deposited the instrument of ratification of the Convention on Cybercrime (ETS 185) on 25 May 2011. The Convention on Cybercrime will enter into force as regards United Kingdom on 1 September 2011. Chart of signatures, ratifications and accessions to the Convention

Finland accepted the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xénophobic nature committed through computer systems (ETS No. 189). (20 May 2011, Strasbourg) Chart of signatures, ratifications and accessions to the Convention

1st 2011 T-CY Bureau meeting took place in the Council of Europe's office in Paris on 10-11 March 2011. List of decisions

2nd 2010 T-CY Bureau meeting took place in the Council of Europe's office in Paris on 9 December 2010.

30th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers of Justice "Modernising Justice in the Third Millennium:- transparent and efficient justice; - prisons in today’s Europe." took place in Istanbul on 24 - 26 November 2010

Conference's website

Resolution No.1 on a modern, transparent and efficient justice

The European Commission unveiled on 30 September two new measures to ensure that Europe can defend itself from attacks against its key information (IT) systems. A proposal for a Directive to deal with new cyber crimes, such as large-scale cyber attacks, is complemented by a proposal for a Regulation to strengthen and modernise the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). The two initiatives are foreseen by the Digital Agenda for Europe and the Stockholm Programme to boost trust and network security (see IP/10/581, MEMO/10/199 and MEMO/10/200). Under the proposed Directive, the perpetrators of cyber attacks and the producers of related and malicious software could be prosecuted, and would face heavier criminal sanctions.

The abridged report of the T-CY's fifth Plenary Session (24 – 25 June 2010) has been discussed at the Rapporteur Group on Legal Co-operation (GR-J) of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers meeting on 30 September 2010.

CM website

T-CY Chair, Markko Kunnapu, Estonia, took part in the fifth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held from 14 to 17 September 2010 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Workshop "Cybercrime - common standards and joint actions"