Additional Council of Europe standards in the area of hate crime:

• Article 4 of the Additional Protocol to the Cybercrime Convention provides for the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems.​
• The 2002 ECRI GPR No. 7 (revised 2017) calls for legislation to combat crimes motivated by hostility towards a person or a group’s perceived race, colour, language, religion, nationality, or national or ethnic origin.​
• The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has drafted and adopted a range of Resolutions and other instruments aimed at furthering standards in this area, notably in terms of systematically addressing all forms of racial discrimination and protecting certain groups from hate crime and violence.​
• The Council of Europe has also developed several key manuals and guides on addressing certain aspects of hate crime, including the HELP course on hate speech and hate crime and the SOGI manual on Policing Hate Crime against LGBTI persons.​
• Furthermore, the Secretary General has created the position of the Special Representative on Antisemitic, Anti-Muslim and other forms of religious intolerance and hate crimes.​
• The Court’s case law has reinforced the positive duty of law enforcement authorities to conduct an adequate and effective investigation into possible bias motives in criminal cases involving alleged discriminatory violence, regardless of whether the offence was committed by state authorities or by private persons. For more details, please consult paras. 35 et seq. of the Explanatory Memorandum to Recommendation CM/Rec(2024)4. ​