Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes

A/DEC/75/555View PDF

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A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 112 Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes, published in 2021.

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4 versions · 2020–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/DEC/78/549

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/DEC/78/549	Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes	—	—
2022	A/DEC/76/552	Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes	373	15%Compare
2021	A/DEC/75/555	Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes	371	—
2020	A/DEC/74/567	Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes	—	–

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7 subjects

Communication Technology Conferences Crime Prevention Cybercrime Groups of Experts Information Technology Treaties

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8 paragraphs

At its 49th plenary meeting, on 15 January 2021, the General Assembly, on the proposal of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Dominica, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America,34 as orally revised, recalling its resolution 74/247 of 27 December 2019, in which it had decided that the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes should convene a threeday organizational session in August 2020, in New York, in order to agree on an outline and modalities for its further activities, to be submitted to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session for its consideration and approval,

recalling also its decision 74/567 of 14 August 2020, by which it had postponed the organizational session of the Ad Hoc Committee mandated by paragraph 3 of resolution 74/247 to a date as early as conditions permit but not later than 1 March 2021, and noting with concern the ongoing situation concerning the coronavirus disease (COVID-19):

(a) Decided to further postpone the organizational session of the Ad Hoc Committee mandated by paragraph 3 of resolution 74/247 to 10 to 12 May 2021;

(b) Confirmed that the report of the organizational session of the Ad Hoc Committee, including the agreed outline and modalities for the further activities of the Committee, and any budgetary implications, shall be submitted to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session for its consideration and approval.

31 A/75/905.

32 Decision 75/519, in section B.2 of the Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 49 (A/75/49), vol. II, becomes decision 75/519 A.

33 A/75/L.71.

34 A/75/L.55 and A/75/L.55/Add.1.

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