Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes

A/RES/75/282View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 112 Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes, published in 2020.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2019–2021

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2021	A/RES/75/282	Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes	767	20%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/247	Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes	1,174	60%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/187	Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes	775	–

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Countering transnational organized crime	61

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Countering transnational organized crime	61	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2019

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2019	A/74/130	Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/73/187

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Communication Technology Crime Prevention Cybercrime Groups of Experts Information Technology Treaties

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the election of the officers of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, at its organizational session, on 10 May 2021;¹

¹Reissued for technical reasons on 21 June 2021. Ms. Faouzia Boumaiza Mebarki (Algeria) as Chair; Mr. Arsi Dwinugra Firdausy (Indonesia) as Rapporteur; and Mr. Emil Stojanovski (Australia), Mr. Wu Haiwen (China), Mr. Claudio Peguero Castillo (Dominican Republic), Mr. Mohamed Hamdy Elmolla (Egypt), Mr. Markko Künnapu (Estonia), Mr. Chitaru Shimizu (Japan), Ms. Sabra Amari Murillo Centeno (Nicaragua), Mr. Terlumun George-Maria Tyendezwa (Nigeria), Ms. Dominika Krois (Poland), Mr. Antonio de Almeida Ribeiro (Portugal), Mr. Dmitry Bukin (Russian Federation), Ms. Kitty Sweeb (Suriname) and Mr. James Walsh (United States of America) as Vice-Chairs.

Decides that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime shall continue to serve as the secretariat of the Ad Hoc Committee;

Notes with appreciation the organizational session of the Ad Hoc Committee, convened in New York from 10 to 12 May 2021;

Decides that the Ad Hoc Committee shall convene at least six sessions, of 10 days each, to commence in January 2022, and conclude its work in order to provide a draft convention to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session;

Also decides that the Ad Hoc Committee shall hold the first, third and sixth negotiating sessions in New York and the second, fourth and fifth sessions in Vienna and shall be guided by the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, while all decisions of the Committee on substantive matters without approval by consensus shall be taken by a two-thirds majority of the representatives present and voting, before which the Chair, upon a decision of the Bureau, shall inform the Committee that every effort to reach agreement by consensus has been exhausted;

Further decides that the Ad Hoc Committee shall conduct the concluding session in New York for the purposes of adopting the draft convention;

Decides to invite to the substantive sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee, as appropriate, representatives of interested global and regional intergovernmental organizations, including representatives of United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and funds, as well as representatives of functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, as observers;

Reaffirms that representatives of non-governmental organizations that are in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, in accordance with Council resolution 1996/31 of 25 July 1996, may register with the secretariat in order to participate in the sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee;

Requests the Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee, in consultation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to draw up a list of representatives of other relevant non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, academic institutions and the private sector, including those with expertise in the field of cybercrime, who may participate in the Ad Hoc Committee, taking into account the principles of transparency and equitable geographical representation, with due regard for gender parity, to submit the proposed list to Member States for their consideration on a non-objection basis² and to bring the list to the attention of the Ad Hoc Committee for a final decision by the Ad Hoc Committee on participation;

²The list will include proposed as well as final names. The general basis of any objections, if requested by one or more States Members of the United Nations or States members of the specialized agencies, will be made known to the Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the requester.

Encourages the Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee to host intersessional consultations to solicit inputs from a diverse range of stakeholders on the elaboration of the draft convention;

Reaffirms that the Ad Hoc Committee shall take into full consideration existing international instruments and efforts at the national, regional and international levels on combating the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes, in particular the work and outcomes of the open-ended intergovernmental Expert Group to Conduct a Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime;

Requests the Secretary-General to allocate the necessary resources in order to organize and support the work of the Ad Hoc Committee within the United Nations programme budget;

Urges Member States to provide voluntary extrabudgetary financial contributions to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to ensure funding to enable the participation of representatives of developing countries, especially those that do not have resident representation in Vienna, in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee, including by covering their travel costs and accommodation expenses;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-sixth to seventy-eighth sessions the item entitled “Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes”.

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