Information for participants
Please find information on the arrangements for the second session in the Information for participants document.
Meeting times
The meetings of the second session were held from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. CEST from 30 May to 7 June 2022.
From 8 to 10 June 2022 the meetings will be held from 10.00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 3.00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. CEST.
The Ad Hoc Committee decided to hold two meetings of three hours per day on these dates, as long as online statements remain limited to a maximum of 30 minutes per meeting.
Format
The second session will be held in a hybrid format in the six official United Nations languages. Delegations may choose to participate in the formal meetings in person, through Interprefy with remote simultaneous interpretation, or by both means.
Conference rooms
The in-person meeting will be held in the Plenary Hall, on the first floor of the M-Building at the Vienna International Centre (VIC).
Conference Room M3 will be made available as an overflow room for viewing the session.
In accordance with the ongoing COVID-19 mitigation measures currently applying at the VIC maximum seating capacity in the conference rooms must not be exceeded.
Remote connection
All other speakers will be connected remotely through Interprefy with remote simultaneous interpretation.
Technical instructions:
Please use the following format for your name:
List of Speakers
Delegations that wish to make preliminary remarks under agenda item 5 and agenda item 6, may approach the List of Speakers desk (next to the Podium) to register for the list of speakers, indicating whether the speaker will be in the conference room or online.
Please send Statements in advance to cybercrimeAHC@un.org and unov.conference@un.org, indicating the agenda item and the name of the delegation in the subject line of the email.
The organization of side events and the participation therein is the responsibility of the organizers. The Secretariat would like to support by publishing the information on the events on the website of the Ad Hoc Committee, as provided by the organizers with the information of the focal point for any queries.
If organizers wish to make information on their event available at the Ad Hoc Committee webpage, they are kindly requested to provide the following information by email to cybercrimeahc@un.org:
- Title of event;
- Time of event, CEST
- Name of the Member State or organization responsible for the event;
- Name and email address of the focal point;
- Link to the online event, if available.
Registration
Registration for the meeting will be done through the self-registration platform Indico. The registration process will be open from Friday, 22 April until Friday, 27 May 2022 6 p.m., New York time.
Participants are kindly asked to register through their personalized Indico account. A video tutorial on how to create an account and sign up for an event can be found here. Frequently asked questions on Indico can be found here.
Modalities of the participation of multi-stakeholders in the Ad Hoc Committee
Please find the information on the Modalities of the participation of multi-stakeholders in the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes document A/AC.291/6).
Guidance on the co-sponsorship of proposals
The secretariat hereby informs all delegations that should they wish to co-sponsor a proposal, they may indicate such a wish upon invitation by the Chair at the meeting, prior to the consideration of the proposal. They may also express the wish to co-sponsor a proposal by email to the Ad Hoc Committee secretariat (cybercrimeahc@un.org) using the official email of the respective Permanent Mission, prior to the consideration of the relevant proposal. Once a proposal is adopted, the secretariat can no longer alter the list of sponsors of a given proposal.
