On 8 November 2023, the GLACY+ project organised an Advisory mission on legislation in the Dominican Republic, with the aim to assess the existing domestic legislation on cybercrime and electronic evidence, as well as draft legislative amendments, with respect to the Convention on Cybercrime and its Second Additional Protocol.
The mission consisted in official meetings with the Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate and members of the respective Commissions in charge of analysing the draft legislative proposal on cybercrime and electronic evidence.
The team of Council of Europe consultants, including Pedro Verdelho, Chair of the Cybercrime Convention Committee, and Ariel Urbina, Executive Secretary of the Forum of Presidents of Legislative Bodies of Central America and the Caribbean (FOPREL), , conveyed the main conclusions and recommendations on the draft law, in view of achieving a better alignment with the provisions of the Second Additional Protocol.
The Dominican Republic signed the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention in January 2023 . The current legislative initiative is designed to assist local authorities with the ratification of the Protocol, as well as at regional level.
