The Convention on Cybercrime, adopted in Budapest in 2001, can be considered a successful agreement, but we have to keep pace with the evolution of technology, stressed Tibor Navracsics, Minister for Public Administration and Justice at the Cybercrime Ministerial Conference.

The Minister recalled that ten years ago the European Council adopted the Convention on Cybercrime, which is a basic document in the war on cybercrime. In the meeting of Ministers of Internal Affairs and Ministers for Justice in Luxembourg, the possibility of renewing the legislation was also dicussed.

The ten-year-old Budapest Conventions have been ratified by thirty states, and ratification is pending in another seventeen states. A number of countries which are not members of the Council of Europe have signed the Convention, said the Minister.

Hungarian Minister for Internal Affairs Sándor Pintér pointed out that the Convention of 2001 was an enduring agreement. Special attention should be paid to speed and rapid reaction when making further developments, he added. Because it is NGOs who detect new cybercrime methods, their representatives will also take place in the deliberations.

By 2013 a new body will be established within the EU to centrally coordinate action against cybercrime, said Mr. Pintér.

(kormany.hu)