Today, 28 June 2023, Ambassador Oksana TOMOVÁ of the Slovak Republic 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 committed through computer systems (ETS No. 189).
This Protocol entails an extension of the Cybercrime Convention’s scope, including its substantive, procedural and international cooperation provisions, so as to cover also offences of racist or xenophobic propaganda. Thus, apart from harmonising the substantive law elements of such behaviour, the Protocol aims at improving the ability of the Parties to make use of the means and avenues of international cooperation set out in the Convention (ETS No. 185) in this area. The Slovak Republic is the 35th country to ratify this Protocol.
- Council of Europe: First Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (Treaty Office webpage)
- Council of Europe: First Additional Protocol - Cybercrime (coe.int) (dedicated webpage)
- Watch the short explainer video on the First Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime in English | in French | in Spanish
