On 19 and 20 September 2017, the first meeting of the T-CY Protocol Drafting Group was held in Strasbourg. This session marked the start of the work on the draft Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (ETS 185), aimed at addressing the issue of access to electronic evidence in the cloud for criminal justice purposes.
44 experts from 28 countries and the European Commission, among other things, discussed an initial inventory of provisions to be developed. They also confirmed that the views of civil society, data protection organisations and industry will be sought in this process which is expected to last until the end of 2019.
The outcome of this meeting will be presented to the T-CY Protocol Drafting Plenary on 28-29 November 2017.
