FAQ Future international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes

How are the negotiations conducted? Negotiations take place during the sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee according to the roadmap and mode of work for the Ad Hoc Committee, which was adopted at its first session in March 2022. [...] You will find the roadmap, the schedule of sessions and the agenda items to be covered during each session in Annex II to the Report on the first session. [...] It decided on the structure of the convention, agreed on the road map and mode of work for the Ad Hoc Committee, including the organizational arrangements for intersessional consultations with multi-stakeholders. [...] At its fourth (9-20 January 2023) and fifth sessions (11-21 April 2023), the Ad Hoc Committee undertook a second reading of the chapters on the criminalization, general provisions, procedural measures and law enforcement (A/AC.291/16), as well as on the preamble, the provisions on international cooperation, preventive measures, technical assistance and the mechanism of implementation and the final. [...] The Chair, with the support of the secretariat, prepared a draft text of the convention, based on the outcomes of the fourth and fifth sessions.