T-CY News
Tunisia becomes the 70th Party to Convention on Cybercrime
Today, 8 March 2024, in the presence of the Deputy Secretary General Bjørn Berge, Mr Badreddine JELIDI, Consul at the Consulate General of Tunisia in Strasbourg, deposited the instrument of accession to the Convention on Cybercrime (ETS 185). With Tunisia's accession, 70 States are now Parties,...
Grenada and Mozambique have been invited to accede to the Convention on Cybercrime
On 7 February 2024, Grenada and Mozambique have been invited to accede to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention). This invitation to accede is valid for five years from its adoption. This is also a result of capacity building activities supported through the various projects of the...
Cameroon becomes 69th Party to Convention on Cybercrime
On 8 February 2023, Cameroon was invited to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. This invitation to accede is valid for five years from its adoption. Today, 15 December, on the occasion of a ceremony on the last day of the Octopus Conference 2023 in Bucharest, Cameroon became Party to...
Armenia becomes 43rd State to sign the Second Additional Protocol to Convention on Cybercrime
Today, 16 November 2023, Mr Arman KHACHATRYAN, Permanent representative of Armenia to the Council of Europe, 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...
Rwanda and São Tomé and Príncipe invited to join the Convention on Cybercrime
On 4 October, Rwanda and São Tomé and Príncipe were invited to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. This invitation to accede is valid for five years from its adoption. African countries are demonstrating an increasing commitment to co-operate on cybercrime and to make use of the...
Japan becomes 2nd state to ratify the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime
Today, 10 August 2023, Japan became the second state to ratify the Second Additional Protocol to the Cybercrime Convention on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence, after Mr Hiroyuki UCHIDA, Consul General, Permanent Observer of Japan to the Council of Europe, deposited the...
Kiribati invited to join the Convention on Cybercrime
Today, on 3 July 2023, Kiribati was invited to accede to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. This invitation to accede is valid for five years from its adoption. This new invitation brings the number of countries invited to accede to 21. Parties and observers of the Budapest Convention More...
T-CY confirms broad scope of powers for the collection of electronic evidence and international cooperation
In a new Guidance Note adopted on 27 June 2023, the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) underlines that the procedural powers and the tools for international and cross-border cooperation of the Budapest Convention and its Second Protocol apply to evidence in electronic form of any criminal...
Slovak Republic becomes 35th state to ratify the First Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime
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....
Hungary, Cabo Verde and Ghana bring number of signatories of the Second Additional Protocol up to 42
Today, 28 June 2023, Minister of Justice of Hungary Ms Judit Varga, Minister of Justice of Cabo Verde Dr Joana Gomes Rosa Amado and Minister of Communications and Digitalisation of Ghana Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, signed the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, on enhanced...
Malta becomes 39th State to sign the Second Additional Protocol to Convention on Cybercrime
Today, 22 June 2023, Ambassador Francesca Camilleri Vettiger, Permanent Representative of Malta to the Council of Europe, 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...
Canada becomes 38th State to sign the Second Additional Protocol to Convention on Cybercrime
Today, 20 June 2023, Dr. Nicholas Brousseau, Permanent Observer of Canada to the Council of Europe, 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...
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...
Events
23rd T-CY Plenary (30 November 2020)
7th Protocol Drafting Plenary (1-3 December 2020)
T-CY Secretariat
Alexander SEGER
Executive Secretary
Jan KRALIK
Programme Manager
Céline DEWAELE
Programme Assistant