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CyberEast+: Armenian counterparts discuss cybercrime legislation reforms and the composition of the country team
On 9 July 2024, a one-day meeting on cybercrime legislation reforms was carried out in Yerevan, Armenia. Local authorities discussed with the Council of Europe experts a series of practical steps towards the implementation of procedural powers under the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest...
La France verse une contribution volontaire au projet Octopus
Le gouvernement français représenté par M. l'ambassadeur Pap Ndiaye, représentant permanent de la France auprès du Conseil de l'Europe, a versé une contribution volontaire au projet Octopus mis en œuvre par le Conseil de l'Europe, d'un montant de 140 000 euros. Cette première contribution...
L'application de la Convention de Budapest étendue à Curaçao
Le 27 juin 2024, en présence du Secrétaire général adjoint Bjørn Berge, M. Shalten Hato, Ministre de la Justice de Curaçao, a déposé les instruments d'acceptation par les Pays-Bas de l'application territoriale de la Convention sur la cybercriminalité (STE 185). C'est la première fois que la...
CyberSEE: Strengthening cooperation and real-time information exchange between Law Enforcement Agencies and Computer Emergency Response Teams
In June 2024, the CyberSEE project supported the Albanian State Police in organising a regional workshop within the framework of the EU policy cycle EMPACT, the cyber-attacks priority. The Albanian State Police took on the role of leader for an action aimed at strengthening the cooperation and...
Octopus Project: Training of Thai prosecutors on cybercrime
The Office of the Attorney General of Thailand and the Council of Europe today started a 4-day training on cybercrime and electronic evidence for 25 Thai prosecutors. In his opening remarks, Jumpon Phansumrit, Deputy Attorney General of Thailand, underlined the importance of equipping...
Launching CyberSPEX - enhanced co-operation on e-evidence by EU Member States through the Second Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention)
The new joint project of the European Union and the Council of Europe – CyberSPEX – was launched on the 20-21 June 2024, in Strasbourg, following the 30th plenary of the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) and gathered representatives of 22 EU member States, including the European Commission,...
La Convention de Budapest atteint les 75 Parties, le Bénin adhère au premier protocole et la République tchèque et la Sierra Leone signent le deuxième protocole additionnel.
Aujourd'hui, 20 juin 2024, en présence du Secrétaire général adjoint du Conseil de l'Europe, M. Bjørn Berge, et dans le cadre de la 30ème session plénière du T-CY, le Bénin, Fidji et Kiribati ont adhéré à la Convention sur la cybercriminalité (STE 185). Avec ces nouvelles adhésions, 75 Etats sont...
CyberEast+ Contributes to the to 2024 edition of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG)
14 law enforcement, Internet industry and civil society actors from the Eastern Partnership countries, supported by CyberEast+, a joint European Union-Council of Europe project, attended the 2024 edition of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) titled Balancing innovation and...
CyberSEE Launch event and first meeting of the Project Steering Committee
CyberSEE joint project of the European Union and the Council of Europe organised its Launch event and the first Steering Committee meeting, on 17 June 2024, in Strasbourg, France. The meeting gathered representatives from the European Commission, the Council of Europe and delegates from Public...
La Géorgie devient le 44ème État à signer le Deuxième Protocole additionnel à la convention sur la cybercriminalité
Aujourd'hui, le 17 juin 2024, Madame l'Ambassadrice Tamar TALIASHVILI, Représentante permanente de la Géorgie auprès du Conseil de l'Europe, a signé le Deuxième Protocole additionnel à la Convention sur la cybercriminalité, relatif au renforcement de la coopération et de la divulgation des...
CyberEast+: Planning Meeting of the CyberEast+ project
CyberEast+ (2024-2027), a joint endeavour of the Council of Europe and of the European Union, formally commenced on 1 March 2024 with a budget of 3.9 million EUR. The project focuses on ensuring effective criminal justice response to cybercrime and electronic evidence and increased...
Council of Europe at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024 in Vilnius
The Council of Europe will participate in the 2024 edition of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG), which brings together representatives of governments, international organisations, business, civil society, academia and the technical community to discuss in internet-related...
CyberSEE: Advanced Training for Police and Prosecution on Investigation and Seizure of Cryptocurrencies
From 12 to 14 June, the European Union-Council of Europe joint project CyberSEE, in close cooperation with OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Serbian Ministry of Interior, Service for Combating High-Tech Crime, organised the Advanced Training for Police and Prosecution on Investigation and Seizure of...
GLACY-e: Support for the national conference on cybercrime for prosecutors
A two-day National Conference on Cybercrime and E-evidence for Prosecutors opened today in Nadi, Fiji. Organised by the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) with the support of the GLACY-e joint project of the European Union and Council of Europe and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...
CyberSouth+: Training of trainers on cybercrime and electronic evidence for magistrates
The Ministry of Justice of Tunisia, in co-operation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the support of the CyberSouth+ project, organised a training-of-trainers course for magistrates, in Tunis, from 11 to 13 June 2024. Tunisia has already incorporated elements of cybercrime and...
CyberSEE and Octopus Project – CYBERKOP Action: EUROPOL AP Twins Annual Expert Meeting on Protecting Children Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
From 5 to 6 June 2024, the CyberSEE project and CYBERKOP Action of the Octopus Project facilitated the participation of representatives from the criminal justice authorities of South-East Europe in the EUROPOL AP Twins Annual Expert Meeting on Protecting Children Against Sexual Exploitation and...
CyberSouth+ Basic judicial training course on cybercrime and electronic evidence for magistrates
The CyberSouth+ project assisted the High Institutes for Magistrates of Morocco in organising a basic judicial training course on cybercrime and electronic evidence in Tangier, from 6 to 8 June 2024, enabling forty in service magistrates to acquire new skills and knowledge to fulfil their roles...
CyberSEE and Octopus Project – CYBERKOP Action: ISS World Training seminars for Law Enforcement, Financial Investigators and Cybersecurity Communities fighting against criminal activities over the Internet
CyberSEE Project and CYBERKOP Action of the Octopus Project supported the participation of twenty-one law enforcement, FIU and CERT representatives from South-East Europe and Türkiye in the world’s largest gathering of Police, Intelligence and Homeland Security Analysts, Telecoms and Financial...
CyberSouth+ Workshop on Standard Operating Procedures with Lebanon
The CyberSouth+ project organized a two-day workshop, on-line, with representatives from the Lebanese Internal Security Force (ISF) and judiciary on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in cybercrime cases and electronic evidence. The aim of the event was to discuss with Lebanese stakeholders the...
CyberSEE: Series of capacity building activities on cybercrime and electronic evidence organised in partnership with U.S. Department of Justice held in Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro
In May 2024, the CyberSEE Project joined forces with the U.S. Department of Justice for putting together a series of capacity building activities aiming to increase the knowledge of criminal justice representatives on conducting cybercrime investigations and handling of electronic evidence. On...