Tackling migrant smuggling in the digital space presents significant challenges for judicial authorities across Europe. Organised criminal groups use digital tools, online platforms, social media and encrypted telephones to offer their illegal services. Increasingly, this digital dimension of...

The need for cross-border access to electronic evidence is imperative for a vast majority of criminal investigations and proceedings nowadays. In this context, a number of public and private entities and projects have been creating resources aimed at facilitating cross-border access to electronic...

The Second Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) on enhanced cooperation and disclosure of electronic evidence (Protocol) aims to enhance cooperation among the Parties, as well as between the Parties and service providers and other entities, for...

The Second Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) on enhanced cooperation and disclosure of electronic evidence (Protocol) aims to enhance cooperation among the Parties, as well as between the Parties and service providers and other entities, for...

The Second Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) on enhanced cooperation and disclosure of electronic evidence (Protocol) aims to enhance cooperation among the Parties, as well as between the Parties and service providers and other entities, for...

This document analyses the process of requesting Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) in criminal matters from Canadian authorities, with a particular focus on the gathering of electronic evidence. It provides information on the basis for cooperation, scope of assistance, requirements for MLA requests...

The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a European Union (EU) law that brings updated and harmonised rules for providers of digital services. As regards access to electronic evidence, especially in a cross-border context, the DSA importantly harmonises rules on disclosure orders addressed by authorities...

This document analyses the process of requesting Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) in criminal matters from Swiss authorities, particularly focusing on the gathering of electronic evidence. It provides information on the basis for cooperation, scope of assistance, requirements for MLA requests, grounds...