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In implementing the CBMs, participating States may wish to avail
themselves of discussions and expertise in other relevant international
organizations working on issues related to ICTs.
Considerations2
Participating States will, at the level of designated national experts,
meet at least three times each year, within the framework of the Security
Committee and its Informal Working Group established by Permanent Council
Decision No. 1039, to discuss information exchanged and explore appropriate
development of CBMs. Candidates for future consideration by the IWG may
include inter alia proposals for CBMs aimed at increasing transparency,
co-operation, and stability among States in the use of ICTs. Such efforts
should, to the extent that they relate to the mandate of the IWG, take into
account and seek to complement the expert-level consensus reports of the 2013
and 2015 United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments
in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of
International Security, including their recommendations on voluntary CBMs,
and the Group’s work in support of voluntarynon-binding norms, rules and
principles of responsible State behaviour in the use of ICTs.
The Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE Secretariat, through
its Cyber Security Officer will, upon request and within available resources,
assist participating States in implementing the CBMs set out above, and in
developing potential future CBMs.
2 First adopted as part of Permanent Council Decision No. 1202 on 10 March 2016.