Further to the launch of the National Cybersecurity Strategy for the years 2020-2023 and the enactment of the Cybercrime Act by the House of Representatives of Belize from September 2020, on 3 June 2021, the Council of Europe, through the GLACY+ project, in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs of Belize, organized an online workshop focused on the access of criminal justice authorities to data held by private parties and roles and responsibilities for on-line service providers in the light of the provisions of the Cybercrime Act.
The workshop’s discussions were successfully enhanced by interventions made by the Authorities of Belize, the European Union Delegation to Belize, the US Department of Justice and Council of Europe experts and supported by the participation of On-line Service Providers, Non-Governmental Organizations and representatives of various Belizean Ministries.
The achieved outcome of the workshop was to further explain best practices of public-private cooperation in cybercrime and electronic evidence in relation to Belize's Cybercrime Act, also having as end purpose to further discuss with Belizean authorities the requirements and procedures for requesting formal accession to the Budapest Convention.
First GLACY+: Advisory Mission on Cybercrime Legislation in Belize
