On Thursday 12 May, the Second Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), aimed at strengthening cooperation and the disclosure of electronic evidence, was opened for signature at an international conference organised in Strasbourg by the Italian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers.
After 4 years of negotiations, the new protocol provides for direct cooperation with service providers and registrars for effective means to obtain subscriber information, traffic data, immediate cooperation in emergencies and joint investigations. It is part of the human rights system, including data protection.
This protocol “brings the Convention up to date with current, technological challenges”, said Maria Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, after recalling the computer attacks on hospitals and “the critical infrastructure we all depend on”.
According to Marta Cartabia, Italian Minister of Justice, “it responds to the need for greater and more efficient co-operation between States and the private sector”.
Twenty-two States have signed it, and it will enter into force when five have ratified it.
Link to the Protocol: https://aeur.eu/f/1lu (Original version in French by Véronique Leblanc)