MINISTERS’ DEPUTIES

Notes on the Agenda

CM/Notes/1490/3.2

12 February 2024[1]

1490th meeting, 21 February 2024 3 Parliamentary Assembly   3.2 Written Questions by members of the Parliamentary Assembly to the Committee of Ministers Written Question No. 790 by Ms Laura Castel: “Compliance with Resolution 2513 (2023) “Pegasus and similar spyware and secret State surveillance” of the Parliamentary Assembly”

 

 

Action: To hold a first exchange of views on the written question reproduced below, with a view to instructing the Secretariat to prepare a draft reply.

 

 

Written Question No. 790 by Ms Laura Castel: “Compliance with Resolution 2513 (2023) “Pegasus and similar spyware and secret state surveillance” of the Parliamentary Assembly”
[Doc. 15925 – 8 February 2024]

In Resolution 2513 (2023) “Pegasus and similar spyware and secret state surveillance”, the Parliamentary Assembly expressed its deep concern at the mounting evidence that Pegasus and similar spywares have been used illegally or for illegitimate purposes by several member States.

The Assembly urged five governments – Poland, Hungary, Greece, Spain and Azerbaijan – to provide information on their use of spywares within three months, to promptly and fully investigate all confirmed or alleged cases of abuse of spyware, to apply adequate sanctions and to provide redress to targeted victims.

Ms Castel

To ask the Committee of Ministers:

Whether, or at what stage, those member States have complied with the requests of the Assembly in its Resolution 2513 (2023), given that the three-month deadline has now expired ?

 

Financing assured: YES

 

DRAFT DECISIONS

The Deputies

1.         instructed the Secretariat to prepare a draft reply to the above-mentioned written question [in light of the views expressed at the present meeting];

2.         agreed to resume consideration of this question at one of their forthcoming meetings.