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EAP II/EAP III: Training on International Cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence for the Eastern Partnership region

International cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence is a difficult and challenging task for criminal justice professionals. The prevalence of cybercrime and the challenges in reliably securing electronic evidence across national borders require a fast, efficient and meaningful response to both mutual legal assistance and police-to-police requests. To mitigate them, cooperation under the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime focuses on preserving and producing admissible and reliable electronic evidence to be used in pre-trial and trial proceedings through all viable means of cooperation. Therefore, it is crucial that the criminal justice community in the Eastern Partnership states has access to an up-to-date knowledge of the legal requirements, effective management and sensible means to achieve such cooperation.

The need for specialized training in international cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence has been repeatedly highlighted by the country teams participating in the Cybercrime@EAP II project. The latter aims at strengthening the capacities of the authorities in charge of international cooperation in cybercrime and electronic evidence. It is implemented by the Council of Europe Cybercrime Programme Office (Bucharest, Romania) within the framework of the Programmatic Cooperation Framework between the European Union and the Council of Europe. It responded to these requests by designing and rolling out a standard training programme on international cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence for the Eastern Partnership countries. It pays special attention to issues of mutual legal assistance, police-to-police and direct cooperations with multinational service providers. The programme also aims to test the feasibility of various manuals, guidelines and templates produced by several capacity building projects of the Council of Europe.

The training programme was launched on 6-9 March 2017 in Yerevan following the development of the course materials. This was possible thanks to the support and participation of the Armenian project country team, cybercrime investigators, police officers from 24/7 points of contact under the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, prosecutors specialized in cybercrime and international cooperation, cooperation units from the Ministry of Justice and representatives of the judiciary.

The training programme will continue from March to May 2017, covering all six countries of the Eastern Partnership, and aiming, as an ultimate goal, to produce a set of training materials that will be published through the Octopus Cybercrime Community to be further used by other capacity building projects of the Council of Europe as well as other professional communities with an interest in the subject.

The Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe, in cooperation with Cybercrime@EAP II project country teams,  will be delighted to answer any inquiries regarding participation in the training programme on international cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence.

YEREVAN 9 MARCH 2017
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 Mid-term results of regional projects (October 2016)