A/75/123 successful reporting and delivery of information on the state of cybersecurity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, participation in the work of the interministerial working group assembled based on Permanent Council decision 1039, participating in seven communications checks and hosting a subregional training on cybersecurity and ICT security in May 2019, among others. Also, we have supported OSCE by providing our capacities and knowledge in the organization of several local conferences and workshops. Also, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been included in the regional project, “Capacity Building for Criminal Justice Practitioners Combating Cybercrime and Cyber-enabled Crime in South-Eastern Europe”. The project was financed by the Governments of Germany and the United States of America and it is realized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in cooperation with representatives of the countries from the region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kos ovo, 1 Serbia and North Macedonia) and OSCE field missions. The main aim of the project is the education and training of experts working on cyber and cyberrelated organized crime cases. The project was ongoing in the period 2017–2019, and it contributed to the development of a comprehensive general strategic framework for solving questions of cybercrime and threats to cybersecurity, as well as stren gthening the existing capacities for fighting against cybercrime as well as for responding to cybersecurity threats. The Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina had a coordination role for Bosnia and Herzegovina in this project. The Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina is conducting activities in order to have an efficient and sustainable cybersecurity system in its jurisdiction by 2023. So far, the Ministry adopted the Strategy for Cyber Security for the defence sector on 4 October 2017. A detailed implementation plan for this strategy was adopted on 27 December 2017. Security goals focus on the prevention of security incidents, the response to security incidents, the education and certification of staff working in the area of cybersecurity in the defence sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina and an increase in the awareness of end users in terms of the security of communication and information systems. Aiming at implementation of the above mentioned points, the Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina has already drafted or adopted certain implementation documents. Also, the Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina has started the process of establishing a computer emergency response team for the Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina has the obligation, within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Partnership for Peace, to implement partner goal G7300 on cyberdefence, which requires: (a) the adoption of policies, procedures and other documents in order to have visible cyberdefence integration into the operations and processes of operational planning and to have international regulations in cyberspace, security measures for risk exchange and estimation of cyberthreats between national and international bodies in the field of cybersecurity implemented; (b) an established Computer Emergency Response Team; (c) the establishment of capabilities for ensuring the confidentiality, availability and authenticity of information and information systems of the Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegov ina; (d) the adoption of programmes for the education and training of experts in the field and end users, as well; (e) the adoption of education programmes through the organization of national cyberexercises and seminars, as well as the participation of representatives of staff of __________________ 1 20-08285 This designation is without prejudice to position on status. 9/84

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