Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Recommendation no. 2077 on increasing co-operation against cyberterrorism and other large-scale attacks on the internet

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe emphasises the importance for the Council of Europe to address challenge posed by cyberterrorism and other forms of large-scale attacks on and through computer systems. The assembly also sets recommendations to the Committee of Ministers to:

– invite the Parties to the Convention on Cybercrime to study the possibility of drafting additional protocols on defining a common level of criminalisation of large-scale cyber-attacks and regarding investigative powers;

– invite the Cloud Evidence Group to study the possibility of drafting an additional protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime regarding criminal justice access to data on cloud servers;

– draft legal standards on the international responsibility of States to take measures to prevent large-scale cyber-attacks from being launched by persons under their jurisdiction or emanating from their national territory;

– increase the assistance regarding the implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime in domestic law and practice;

– call on states to transmit to their national ministries and authorities this recommendation and Resolution 2070 (2015).