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Cybercrime

Global Project Cybercrime@Octopus

Cybercrime@Octopus is a Council of Europe project based on voluntary contributions aimed at assisting countries worldwide to implement the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and strengthen data protection and rule of law safeguards

Results are expected in the following areas:

To ensure the organisation of the annual Octopus conferences;
To co-fund and support the functioning of the Cybercrime Convention Committee with its enlarged membership, functions and number of meetings;
To provide advice and other assistance to countries which are prepared to implement the Budapest Convention and related instruments on data protection and the protection of children.

Duration of the project: 1 January 2014 – 31 December 2020.

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Back United Kingdom makes a further voluntary contribution to the new Octopus Project

The United Kingdom has made a further voluntary contribution to the new Octopus project, amounting to UK Pounds 100,000.

The new project aims to support the implementation of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime (CETS 185), its Protocols and related standards through the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) and the Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC).

The United Kingdom is a Party to the Budapest Convention since 2011, being one of the 65 countries worldwide to have joined the Convention on Cybercrime thus far, and is actively engaged in the search for solutions to render the sharing of electronic evidence for criminal justice purposes more efficient.

Consult the Octopus Project summary (.pdf)