On Monday 3 September, members of the European Parliament civil liberties committee almost unanimously approved (31 votes for and 1 against) the draft report by Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann (S&D, Germany) on the directive aimed at combating fraud and counterfeiting of payment means other than cash.
“In today’s vote, we managed to harmonise the definitions of online crime offences throughout the EU, introduce a minimum level for penalties for them and improve the protection of victims of...