CyberSPEX

Summary

The project will support EU m/s in the development of the relevant domestic legislation and of other measures to operationalise the provisions of the Protocol.

The project will be implemented by the Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Programme Office (C-PROC) in Bucharest and will seek close cooperation with organisations with subject-matter expertise on cybercrime and e-evidence, that is, EUROJUST and EUROPOL, including the SIRIUS project, as well as CEPOL.

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Context

The Budapest Convention on Cybercrime serves as a global framework for cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence. By December 2023, 69 States were Parties and another 22 had signed it or been invited to accede. Parties include all EU Member States (m/s) except Ireland which had signed it in 2002. In May 2022, the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime on enhanced cooperation and disclosure of electronic evidence was opened for signature. By December 2023, two States (Japan and Serbia) were Parties, and a further 41 States had signed it, including 20 EU m/s.

Aim

The project will encourage signature by all EU m/s. It will also support EU m/s to permit them to ratify this Protocol as soon as possible. The project will also support EU m/s in the development of the relevant domestic legislation and of other- measures to operationalise the provisions of the Protocol.

Outcomes

• Increased alignment of domestic legislation of EU Member States with the Second Protocol
• EU Member States are signatories and have made progress towards becoming Parties to the Second Protocol
• Improved capacities of criminal justice practitioners in EU Member States to apply the tools of the Second Protocol