Major Donors' Group

All Member States co-operate with the UNDCP, and several are part of the UNDCP major donors group which Finland is chairing during 2002.

Together with the Member States’ contributions, the EU is a world-leading donor.

In cooperation with the Member States, the Commission and the High Representative will: · Work towards a coherent EU International cyberspace policy to increase engagement with key international partners and organisations, to mainstream cyber issues into CFSP, and to improve coordination of global cyber issues; · Support the development of norms of behaviour and confidence building measures in cybersecurity. Facilitate dialogues on how to apply existing international law in cyberspace and promote the Budapest Convention to address cybercrime; · Support the promotion and protection of fundamental rights, including access to information ...[+++]and freedom of expression, focusing on: a) developing new public guidelines on freedom of expression online and offline; b) monitoring the export of products or services that might be used for censorship or mass surveillance online; c) developing measures and tools to expand Internet access, openness and resilience to address censorship or mass surveillance by communication technology; d) empowering stakeholders to use communication technology to promote fundamental rights; · Engage with international partners and organisations, the private sector and civil society to support global capacity-building in third countries to improve access to information and to an open Internet, to prevent and counter cyber threats, including accidental events, cybercrime and cyber terrorism, and to develop donor coordination for steering capacity-building efforts; · Utilise different EU aid instruments for cybersecurity capacity building, including assisting the training of law enforcement, judicial and technical personnel to address cyber threats; as well as supporting the creation of relevant national policies, strategies and institutions in third countries; · Increase policy coordination and information sharing through the international Critical Information Infrastructure Protection networks such as the Meridian network, cooperation among NIS ...

22. Welcomes the increased EU support in addressing the humanitarian crisis in the CAR and calls for the EU and its Members States, as leading donors to the country, to enhance their coordination with the other donors and international institutions in order to adequately meet urgent humanitarian needs and alleviate the suffering of the Central African people;