Certain Open Issues Regarding the Implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber Crime Cover Image

Нека отворена питања примене Конвенције Савета Европе о високотехнолошком криминалу
Certain Open Issues Regarding the Implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber Crime

Author(s): Dušan Vasić
Subject(s): Criminology, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Penal Policy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Институт за политичке студије
Keywords: Convention on cyber crime; high-tech criminal; personal data protection; 24/7 Network; Computer Emergency React Team (CERT);

Summary/Abstract: Advancement of Serbia toward the European Union requires its integration into the common Europe-wide concept of combating high technology criminal. The platform for this concept was laid down by the Council of Europe Convention on cyber crime. To this date, there are 46 states signatories to the Convention, but only 28 have completed the process of ratification. The reason is that some provisions of the Convention remain contestable and therefore, difficult to transpose into national laws. This paper will focus on those open issues, concluding that all the parties to the Convention remain dedicated to the common concept of prevention, suppression and penalization of cyber crime regardless of the delay in the ratification process. Furthermore, in the author’s opinion, the current halt in the process of the Convention ratification and some of its shortcomings could be overcome by the adoption of a new universal convention under the auspices of the United Nations.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 233-250
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian