Academy of European Law – Fighting Cybercrime Seminar

Cooperation between Law Enforcement Agencies and the Internet Industry

Trier, 10-11 November 2011.

This event is intended as a platform to debate and assess effective cooperation between law enforcement agencies and the internet industry to prevent, detect and respond to crimes committed using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

During the seminar the most recent European legal acts and complementary meausres such as the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (2001) and the two new proposals for directives to replace Council Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA on attacks against information systems and Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA on combating sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, will be analysed.

After the introductory lectures by national, EU and Council of Europe experts, panels of experts from the public and provate sectors (Ebay, Microsoft, Symantec and Vodafone), will discuss the concrete implementation of these measures at domestic level and the differences in national legislative acts which impede the effective fight against cybercrime.

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