The Convention on Cybercrime ("Budapest Convention") is regarded as the most comprehensive and coherent international agreement on cybercrime and electronic evidence to date. It serves as a guideline for any country developing domestic legislation on cybercrime and as a framework for international co-operation between State Parties to this treaty.

The Convention is supplemented by a First Additional Protocol covering the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems (CETS 189) and a Second Additional Protocol, on enhanced international co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence (CETS 224).