Cabo Verde acceded today to the Council of Europe´s Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, and to the Data Protection Convention 108.

The Minister of Justice and Labour of Cabo Verde, Janine Lelis, deposited the accession documents during a ceremony in Strasbourg on the side-lines of a meeting of the Consultative Committee of “Convention 108”, in the presence of the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni.

With Cabo Verde´s accession, the Convention on Cybercrime has now 59 states parties. A further 12 States have signed it or been invited to accede.

Both treaties will enter into force in respect of Cabo Verde on 1 October 2018.