A/AC.291/L.15 Commending the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other international and regional organizations in preventing and combating cybercrime, [agreed ad referendum] Recalling General Assembly resolutions 74/247 of 27 December 2019 and 75/282 of 26 May 2021, Taking into account the existing international and regional conventions and treaties on cooperation in criminal matters, as well as similar treaties that exist between Member States of the United Nations, [agreed ad referendum] Have agreed as follows: Chapter I General provisions Article 1. Statement of purpose The purposes of this Convention are to: (a) Promote and strengthen measures to prevent and combat cybercrime more efficiently and effectively; [agreed ad referendum] (b) Promote, facilitate and strengthen international cooperation in preventing and combating cybercrime; and [agreed ad referendum] (c) Promote, facilitate and support technical assistance and capacity -building to prevent and combat cybercrime, in particular for the benefit of developing countries. Article 2. Use of terms For the purposes of this Convention: (a) “Information and communications technology system” shall mean any device or group of interconnected or related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a program, gathers, stores and performs automatic processing of electronic data; [agreed ad referendum] (b) “Electronic data” shall mean any representation of facts, information or concepts in a form suitable for processing in an information and communications technology system, including a program suitable to cause an information and communications technology system to perform a function; [agreed ad referendum] (c) “Traffic data” shall mean any electronic data relating to a communication by means of an information and communications technology system, generated by an information and communications technology system that formed a part in the chain of communication, indicating the communication’s origin, destination, route, time, date, size, duration or type of underlying service; [agreed ad referendum] (d) “Content data” shall mean any electronic data, other than subscriber information or traffic data, relating to the substance of the data transferred by an information and communications technology system, including, but not limited to, images, text messages, voice messages, audio recordings and video recordings; [agreed ad referendum] (e) “Service provider” shall mean any public or private entity that: (i) Provides to users of its service the ability to communicate by means of an information and communications technology system; or (ii) Processes or stores electronic data on behalf of such a communications service or users of such a service; V.24-14137 3/41