Comments on the notion of information system in the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, the EU directive, and selected penal codes

Stephan Foldes (1)

1 University of Tampere [Finland]

The penal codes of a number of countries having ratified the Convention on Cybercrime signed in Budapest in 2001, or bound by Directive 2013/40/EU, contain provisions which criminalize certain acts directed at information systems or computer data. The definitions of the concept of "system" provided in the Convention and the Directive are examined in comparison with the corresponding terms and notions used in the penal codes of France, Germany, Austria and Hungary.

Mots clés: cybercrime; elements of crime; instrumentum sceleris; computer system; information system; illegal access; system interference; data interference; interception

Domaines: Droit

Stephan Foldes. Comments on the notion of information system in the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, the EU directive, and selected penal codes. 2017. ⟨hal-01588889⟩