COUNCIL OF EUROPE: CYBERCRIME, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STRASBOURG

Better cooperation between the bodies in charge of supervising the implementation of the law and the Internet service providers in the attempt to allow the police and the magistrates to fight crimes committed through the web. This is the goal that inspires the international conference promoted on 1st and 2nd April in Strasbourg, to which the Council of Europe will invite experts, delegates of the governments, the police and the private sector as well as educators and associations. On that occasion, "the CoE – reads a release – will review the guidelines to bring the public and private sectors closer. Another item on the agenda is strengthening cooperation between the contacts of the network of the states that have endorsed the Council of Europe Convention on cyber-crime and the high-tech under-group within the G8, for easier international investigations and more straightforward actions". The Cyber-Crime Convention, developed in 2004 and signed so far by 22 countries, including the United States, is the only binding international treaty in this respect. During the conference, the leaders of the CoE will invite the governments to endorse the Cyber-Crime Convention and the one against "cyber-racism".