ETS 185 – Cybercrime (Convention), 23.XI.2001
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Article 4 – Data interference
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Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish
as criminal offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, the damaging,
deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data without right.
2
A Party may reserve the right to require that the conduct described in paragraph 1 result in
serious harm.
Article 5 – System interference
Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish
as criminal offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, the serious
hindering without right of the functioning of a computer system by inputting, transmitting,
damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data.
Article 6 – Misuse of devices
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Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish
as criminal offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally and without right:
a
the production, sale, procurement for use, import, distribution or otherwise making
available of:
i
a device, including a computer program, designed or adapted primarily for the
purpose of committing any of the offences established in accordance with Articles 2
through 5;
ii
a computer password, access code, or similar data by which the whole or any part
of a computer system is capable of being accessed,
with intent that it be used for the purpose of committing any of the offences established in
Articles 2 through 5; and
b
the possession of an item referred to in paragraphs a.i or ii above, with intent that it be
used for the purpose of committing any of the offences established in Articles 2
through 5. A Party may require by law that a number of such items be possessed before
criminal liability attaches.
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This article shall not be interpreted as imposing criminal liability where the production, sale,
procurement for use, import, distribution or otherwise making available or possession referred
to in paragraph 1 of this article is not for the purpose of committing an offence established in
accordance with Articles 2 through 5 of this Convention, such as for the authorised testing or
protection of a computer system.
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Each Party may reserve the right not to apply paragraph 1 of this article, provided that the
reservation does not concern the sale, distribution or otherwise making available of the items
referred to in paragraph 1 a.ii of this article.
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