The second regional workshop, in the series dedicated to the Second Additional Protocol (SAP) to the Budapest Convention, organized by the CyberSouth project, took place on 15 December 2021.

The workshop focused on the rationale and applicability of the SAP articles on emergency mutual legal assistance, video conferencing and joint investigation teams and joint investigations, as part of the procedures pertaining to international cooperation in the absence of applicable international agreements. Furthermore, the conditions and safeguards that State Parties shall foresee in their domestic law, in order to ensure adequate protection of human rights and freedoms were also touched upon.

The presentation was followed by additional questions and interactive discussions on how these provisions will apply in practice.

The CyberSouth project will continue to support the priority countries with further, in-country capacity building activities on the topic in order to provide an overview of the compliance of the domestic legislation with the new legal tools introduced by the SAP, that are scheduled for 2022.

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