T-CY News
Mauritius becomes 37th State to sign the Second Additional Protocol to Convention on Cybercrime
Today, 31 May 2023, H.E. Mr Vijayen Valaydon, Ambassador of the Republic of Mauritius to France, signed the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence. The event took place in Strasbourg in the presence of Deputy...
Kazakhstan invited to join the Convention on Cybercrime
Today, 19 April 2023, Kazakhstan was invited to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. This invitation to accede is valid for five years from its adoption. These new invitations bring the number of countries that have signed it or been invited to accede to 20. Parties and observers of...
Albania becomes 36th State to sign the Second Additional Protocol to Convention on Cybercrime
Today, 27 February 2023, Ambassador Dastid KORESHI, Permanent Representative of Albania, signed the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence. The event took place in Strasbourg in the presence of Deputy Secretary...
Argentina becomes 35th State to sign the Second Additional Protocol to Convention on Cybercrime
Yesterday, 16 February 2023, Dr Aníbal Domingo Fernández, Minister of Security of the Argentine Republic, signed the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence. The event took place in Strasbourg in the presence of...
Serbia becomes first state to ratify the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime
On 9 February 2023 Serbia became the first state to ratify the Second Additional Protocol to the Cybercrime Convention on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence, after Ambassador Aleksandra Djurović, Permanent Representative of Serbia to the Council of Europe, deposited the...
Cameroon, Korea, Sierra Leone and Uruguay invited to join the Convention on Cybercrime
On 8 February, Cameroon, Korea, Sierra Leone and Uruguay were invited to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. This invitation to accede is valid for five years from its adoption. These new invitations bring the number of countries invited to accede to 19. Parties and observers of the...
International Conference on xenophobia and racism committed through computer systems - sharing good practices on 20 years of implementing the First Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime
Some 110 experts on cybercrime and hate speech from over 45 countries – including from public and private sectors, academia and civil society organisations – participated in the International Conference on xenophobia and racism committed through computer systems at the Council of Europe in...
Iceland joins the First Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, on countering xenophobic and racist acts committed through computer systems
On Monday, 30 January 2023, the Icelandic Ambassador to the Council of Europe, Ms Ragnhildur Arnljótsdóttir, deposited the instrument of ratification of the First Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature...
Dominican Republic becomes the 34th State to sign the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime
On Monday, 30 January 2023, the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the Kingdom of Belgium and the European Union, Mr Iván Ogando Lora, signed the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence. The event took place...
France and Germany become 32nd and 33rd States to sign the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime
The Second Additional Protocol on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence was opened for signature on 12 May 2022 within the framework of an international conference in Strasbourg, France. This morning, on 27 January 2023, Ambassador Marie FONTANEL, Permanent Representative...
Greece becomes 31st State to sign the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime
The Second Additional Protocol on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence was opened for signature on 12 May 2022 within the framework of an international conference in Strasbourg, France. Last Friday, on 20 January 2023, Ambassador Panayiotis Beglitis, Permanent...
Save the Date! International Conference on Xenophobia and Racism committed through computer systems
The Council of Europe, through its Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC), with support from the Octopus Project and in cooperation with the Icelandic Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, is organising an international conference on xenophobia and racism committed via...
Brazil accedes to the Convention on Cybercrime and six States sign the new Protocol on e-evidence
On 30 November 2022, during the 27th Plenary of the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) in Strasbourg, France, a further six States signed the Second Protocol to the Budapest Convention. Croatia, Moldova, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the United Kingdom joined 24 other countries that had...
Ransomware: New Guidance Note by the T-CY
The Cybercrime Convention Committee just adopted a guidance note on “ransomware”. This new GN shows how the provisions of the Convention on Cybercrime and its new Second Additional Protocol can be used to criminalise, investigate and prosecute ransomware-related offences and to engage in...
Timor Leste invited to join the Convention on Cybercrime
On 6 October, Timor Leste was invited to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. Following up on this, the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe held an online meeting on 24 October with the Directorate of Legislation of the Ministry of Justice of Timor Leste. It was...
Original instrument confirming Nigeria’s accession to the Convention on Cybercrime received
The original instrument confirming Nigeria’s accession to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime was received on 28 August 2022 in New York in the fringes of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on ICT crime. The Convention will enter into force for Nigeria on 1 November 2022. This comes after Nigeria...
Côte d’Ivoire invited to join the Convention on Cybercrime
Côte d’Ivoire was invited on 30 June 2022 to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. Thus, 82 States are now either Parties (66), or have signed it or been invited to accede (16). The authorities of Côte d’Ivoire have been cooperating with the Council of Europe in cybercrime matters on...
Costa Rica becomes 24th State to sign the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime
The new Protocol on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence was opened for signature on 12 May 2022 within the framework of an international conference in Strasbourg, France. Yesterday, 13 June 2022, Mr Sergio Vinocour Fornieri, Chargé d’affaires a.i. of Costa Rica in France,...
Ministers of Foreign Affairs call for signature and ratification of the e-evidence Protocol to the Budapest Convention – Andorra is 23rd State to sign this Protocol
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Council of Europe members meeting in Turin, Italy, on 20 May, inter alia called on all Parties to the Convention on Cybercrime to sign and ratify the new, Second Additional Protocol to this treaty. Andorra signed this instrument during the meeting to become the...
Enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence: 22 countries open the way by signing the Second Additional Protocol to the Cybercrime Convention
The Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence, was opened for signature on 12 May in Strasbourg, France within the framework of a hybrid international conference (www.coe.int/cyber2AP) organised...
Events
23rd T-CY Plenary (30 November 2020)
7th Protocol Drafting Plenary (1-3 December 2020)
