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EU US Working Group on Cyber-Security and Cyber-Crime

01 June 2011

EU US Working Group on Cyber-Security and Cyber-Crime

In response to Parliamentary question 4816/2011 from Marietje Schaake (ALDE, the Netherlands) on Purpose of the EU US Working Group on Cyber-Security and Cyber-Crime, Commissioner Malmström said that: (1) The Commission does not share the Honourable Member's view that little information about agreements with the US can be found. Regarding the EU-US working group (WG) on cyber-security and cyber-crime, the following press statements are publicly available: MEMO/11/246, MEMO/10/597 and PRES/10/315. (2) The EU-US WG will not deal with commercial matters, but is tasked with developing collaborative approaches to a wide range of cyber-security and cyber-crime issues, including cyber-incident management (e.g. joint cyber attack exercises), awareness raising and cybercrime (combating child pornography and the misuse of Internet resources, such as domain names and Internet Protocol addresses). The WG will equally promote the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime in the remaining EU member states and globally. (3) The fact that the threat from cybercrime is growing and represents a social and economic menace to our societies has been established not only by the industry operating in the online environment, but also by public bodies in the EU and internationally, including Europol and Interpol.