The Octopus Project is a Council of Europe project based on voluntary contributions from States Parties and Observers to the Convention on Cybercrime and other public and private sector organisations, aiming to support the implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), its Protocols and related standards, as well as to address additional challenges that came to the forefront in the course of 2020. 

The Council of Europe gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Hungary to the Octopus Project. 

The project is open to voluntary contributions. Consult the Octopus Project leaflet here (version March 2026). 

Hungary is making a voluntary contribution to a number of their presidency priorities, including action against cybercrime

21 June 2021 Strasbourg

In the framework of their Presidency to the Committee of Ministers, Hungary made a voluntary contribution to eight of their chairmanship priorities, including action against cybercrime through the Octopus Project. The amount of EUR 50 000 is to be used to support the activities implemented...

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