Конвенција Савета Европе о високотехнолошком криминалу
Council of Europe Convention on High-Tech Crime

Summary/Abstract: Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime was adopted at the conference in Budapest on 23 November 2001 and entered into force 1st July 2004. It is the most important international document in this area, which was passed in order to harmonize national legislation to combat cybercrime, and how the provisions of the Convention are significant, universal and affordable, suggests the fact that the many countries accepted the Convention, even those who are not members of the Council of Europe. The Convention on Cybercrime was created in accordance with the tendency to devise an international act whose material included prevention, apprehension and punishment of offenders in the area of cyber crime. The Convention follows this trend and in addition to general questions devoted to precisely the measures that should be taken at national level as part of the substantive and procedural law as well as issues of international cooperation. In 2003 the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime was adopted concerning the criminalization of acts of racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems. It entered into force on 1st March 2006.

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