The European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs Council, meeting on 9 June 2016, adopted a set of conclusions aimed at improving criminal justice in cyberspace. Actions envisaged include the streamlining of mutual legal assistance procedures, improved cooperation with service providers and reflections on the concept of enforcement jurisdiction. These actions are to be carried out “in a way which is consistent with the work under way on the Council of Europe Budapest Convention framework.” Ministers are also “Recalling the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime of 23 November 2001 and its Additional Protocol which is promoted by the Union as a global framework of reference to fight cybercrime.”

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