1. The Consultative Forum acknowledges the increasing and global threat represented by cybercrime and the specific challenges encountered in cybercrime investigations as well as their impact on cross-border investigations and prosecutions. These challenges are illustrated by new technology-based crime types like e.g. Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud. In addition they are also increasingly relevant for investigating terrorist and extremists attacks which rely on cyberspace to amplify their impact.

2. The Consultative Forum underlines the role of Eurojust in this field, particularly enabling a coordinated approach to cybercrime investigations and facilitating the admissibility of evidence in court. At the same time the Consultative Forum encourages Eurojust to further facilitate also the strategic dialogue between judicial authorities of the Member States on the significance of new technological trends such as cryptocurrencies or artificial intelligence from the perspective of criminal law.