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a
the criminal offences established in accordance with Articles 2
through 11 of this Convention;
b
other criminal offences committed by means of a computer system;
and
c
the collection of evidence in electronic form of a criminal offence.
a
Each Party may reserve the right to apply the measures referred to
in Article 20 only to offences or categories of offences specified in
the reservation, provided that the range of such offences or
categories of offences is not more restricted than the range of
offences to which it applies the measures referred to in Article 21.
Each Party shall consider restricting such a reservation to enable the
broadest application of the measure referred to in Article 20.
b
Where a Party, due to limitations in its legislation in force at the
time of the adoption of the present Convention, is not able to apply
the measures referred to in Articles 20 and 21 to communications
being transmitted within a computer system of a service provider,
which system:
i
is being operated for the benefit of a closed group of users,
ii
does not employ public communications networks and is not
connected with another computer system, whether public or
private,
and
that Party may reserve the right not to apply these measures to such
communications. Each Party shall consider restricting such a
reservation to enable the broadest application of the measures
referred to in Articles 20 and 21.
Article 15 –
Conditions and safeguards
1
Each Party shall ensure that the establishment, implementation and
application of the powers and procedures provided for in this Section are
subject to conditions and safeguards provided for under its domestic law,
which shall provide for the adequate protection of human rights and
liberties, including rights arising pursuant to obligations it has undertaken
under the 1950 Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the 1966 United Nations
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other applicable
international human rights instruments, and which shall incorporate the
principle of proportionality.
2
Such conditions and safeguards shall, as appropriate in view of the nature
of the procedure or power concerned, inter alia, include judicial or other
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