Press Release: Commission sets out plan to combat cybercrime

On 30.1.01, Mr Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society and Mr António Vitorino, European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs, presented a Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the security of network systems and the fight against computer crime. With this Communication, the Commission outlines its policy orientations in this field for the first time. Combating computer-related crime to create a safer internet is one of the objectives of the eEurope 2002 Action Plan and is vital for the further development of e-commerce in Europe and for the Information Society as a whole. The Communication initiates an on-line public consultation of two months duration.

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http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/eif/InternetPoliciesSite/Crime/crime1.html http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/eif/InternetPoliciesSite/Crime/crime1.html

http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/eif/InternetPoliciesSite/Crime/CrimeCommEN.html http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/eif/InternetPoliciesSite/Crime/CrimeCommEN.html

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