24/7 Points of contact

An important provision of the Convention on Cybercrime is Article 35, that is, the creation of points of contact available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to facilitate international cooperation. Parties to the Convention are thus to establish such 24/7 contact points. This Article is very much based on the experience of the G8 which established a network of such contact points already in 1997 and which currently comprises some 48 members. A number of these are States are Party to the Convention.