Combating computer crime

Commission proposal for a Council framework decision on attacks against information systems - 19 April 2002

Also: EU forum on cybercrime, 27 November 2001 

Background

The Commission is participating in a number of initiatives aiming at making communications networks like the Internet safer from criminal activity.

It adopted on 26.1.2001 a Communication to the Council and the European Parliament   (COM(2000)890) entitled

Creating a Safer Information Society by Improving the Security of Information Infrastructures and Combating Computer-related Crime (html)

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The European Commission invited comments from all interested parties on the issues addressed in this Communication by 23 March 2001.

The comments received are published here.

Public Hearing

The European Commission organised a public hearing of interested parties on the issues addressed in the Communication on 7 March 2001.  Here is a report on this event.

For any further information please do not hesitate to email: ilias.chantzos@ec.europa.eu

Expert meeting

Expert Meeting on approximation of criminal law for attacks against computer systems, June 2001

Other related actions

The Internet Action Plan aims at identifying and acting against harmful and illegal content.

A study commissioned in 1997 examined a number of legal aspects of computer crime

A follow-on study has been completed, November 2000,  to examine ways of improving transnational cooperation between interested parties in industry and law enforcement in order to combat transnational crime with the necessary rapidity.

Some Internet resources concerning the issues of IT security and encryption are listed on this page

Here is a presentation of the electronic signature mechanism.

The Commission is also participating in the meetings of the G8 Subgroup on high-tech crime and in the Committee of Experts on Crime in Cyber-Space (PC-CY) of the Council of Europe which is currently working on a draft Convention on cybercrime