Improving international cooperation on cybercrime in the Eastern Partnership region Meeting under the CyberCrime@EAP II project organised by the Council of Europe 9-11 September 2015, Hotel Novotel, Bucharest, Romania

24/7 points of contact in EAP countries

Alexander Seger Council of Europe

Budapest Convention: Article 35 24/7 Network

1 Each Party shall designate a point of contact available on a twenty-four hour, seven- day-a-week basis, in order to ensure the provision of immediate assistance for the purpose of investigations or proceedings concerning criminal offences related to computer systems and data, or for the collection of evidence in electronic form of a criminal offence. Such assistance shall include facilitating, or, if permitted by its domestic law and practice, directly carrying out the following measures:

a the provision of technical advice;

b the preservation of data pursuant to Articles 29 and 30;

c the collection of evidence, the provision of legal information, and locating of suspects.

2 a. A point of contact shall have the capacity to carry out communications with the point of contact of another Party on an expedited basis.

b. If the point of contact designated by a Party is not part of that authority or authorities responsible for international mutual assistance or extradition, the point of contact shall ensure that it is able to co-ordinate with such authority or authorities on an expedited basis.

3 Each Party shall ensure that trained and equipped personnel are available, in order to

facilitate the operation of the network

Country

Contact point

Armenia

Direction for Fighting Against High tech crimes

General Department on Combating Against Organized Crime, Police of the Republic of Armenia

Azerbaijan

24/7 National Contact Point Division

Department of Combating Crimes in Communications and IT Sphere

General Directorate of Combating Organised Transnational Crimes, Ministry of National Security

Belarus (G7)

High-Tech Crime Department (HTCD) Ministry of the Interior

Georgia

Cybercrime Division, Central Criminal Police Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia

Country

Contact point

Moldova

  1. Section for Combating IT crimes,
  2. Center for Combating Cyber Crime
    National Inspectorate for Investigations of the General Inspectorate of Police

Ukraine

Department for Combating Cybercrime, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

Country

Contact point

Estonia

Bureau of Criminal Intelligence
Criminal Police Department
Estonian Police and Border Guard Board

France

Office Central de Lutte contre la Criminalité liée aux Technologies Judicial Police

Germany

National High Tech Crime Unit
Bundeskriminalamt Wiesbaden / Federal Criminal Police Office

Romania

  1. Cybercrime Unit, DIICOT (Prosecution)
  2. Cybercrime Unit, General Directorate for Countering Organized Crime and Anti-drugs, Romanian National Police

USA

Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) U.S. Department of Justice

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