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4.
Each State Party shall take appropriate measures to ensure that the relevant
competent authority or authorities responsible for preventing and combating
cybercrime are known and accessible to the public, where appropriate, for the
reporting, including anonymously, of any incident that may be considered a criminal
offence established in accordance with this Convention. [agreed ad referendum]
5.
States Parties shall endeavour to periodically evaluate existing relevant national
legal frameworks and administrative practices with a view to identifying gaps and
vulnerabilities and ensuring their relevance in the face of changing threats posed by
the offences established in accordance with this Convention. [agreed ad referendum]
6.
States Parties may collaborate with each other and with relevant international
and regional organizations in promoting and developing the measures referred to in
this article. This includes participation in international projects aimed at the
prevention of cybercrime. [agreed ad referendum]
7.
Each State Party shall inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the
name and address of the authority or authorities that may assist other States Parties in
developing and implementing specific measures to prevent cybercrime. [ agreed ad
referendum]
Chapter VII
Technical assistance and information exchange
Article 54. Technical assistance and capacity-building
1.
States Parties shall, according to their capacity, consider affording one another
the widest measure of technical assistance and capacity -building, including training
and other forms of assistance, the mutual exchange of relevant experience and
specialized knowledge and the transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms,
taking into particular consideration the interests and needs of developing States
Parties, with a view to facilitating the prevention, detection, investigation and
prosecution of the offences covered by this Convention.
2.
States Parties shall, to the extent necessary, initiate, develop, implement or
improve specific training programmes for their personnel responsible for the
prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of the offences covered by this
Convention. [agreed ad referendum]
3.
Activities referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article may deal, to the extent
permitted by domestic law, with the following: [agreed ad referendum]
(a) Methods and techniques used in the prevention, detection, investigation
and prosecution of the offences covered by this Convention; [ agreed ad referendum]
(b) Building capacity in the development and planning of strategic policies
and legislation to prevent and combat cybercrime; [agreed ad referendum]
(c) Building capacity in the collection, preservation and sharing of evidence,
in particular in electronic form, including the maintenance of the chain of custody and
forensic analysis; [agreed ad referendum]
(d) Modern law enforcement equipment and the use thereof; [ agreed ad
referendum]
(e) Training of competent authorities in the preparation of requests for mutual
legal assistance and other means of cooperation that meet the requirements of this
Convention, especially for the collection, preservation and sharing of evidence in
electronic form; [agreed ad referendum]
(f) Prevention, detection and monitoring of the movements of proceeds
deriving from the commission of the offences covered by this Convention, property,
equipment or other instrumentalities and methods used for the transfer, concealment
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