Last 8th August in New York, the UN members drafted an agreement to a new UN cybercrime convention.
This new UN convention boosts fundamental rights protection and strengthens global cooperation against child sexual abuse. It complements the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, signed by all EU countries except Ireland, which hasn’t ratified it yet.
In a short time window, the text will be submitted to the UN General Assembly for formal adoption.
This negotiation, ongoing for the past three years, has included EU involvement. In the 2021 Security Union report, the Commission committed to ensuring the EU’s participation in UN talks for a new international cybercrime convention. By March 2022, it recommended starting negotiations, and by May, the Council authorized the Commission to represent the EU.
Read the draft convention here
Sources
Commission reached an agreement on the new international cybercrime convention, Commission.Europa.eu, 13 August 2024
United Nations: Member States finalize a new cybercrime convention, United Nations, 9 August 2019
United Nations treaty on cybercrime agreed by the Ad Hoc Committee, Council of Europe, 8 August 2024