New criminal offences have been included in the Criminal Code, such as the insertion, deletion, damage, alteration or removal of computer data, the obstruction of access to such data, as well as the unauthorised transfer, acquisition, sale or making available of data with restricted access.
For these offences, fines ranging from 850 to 1,350 conventional units or imprisonment for between 2 and 5 years are proposed. If programmes or access data designed to affect at least two computer systems are used, penalties for legal entities may reach 7,000 conventional units, including their liquidation.
Stricter penalties are provided for attacks on critical infrastructure. In such cases, legal persons face fines ranging from 10,000 to 30,000 conventional units and liquidation.
The draft also amends Article 260³ concerning the disruption of the functioning of computer systems. For the basic form of the offence, a prison sentence of between 2 and 5 years is proposed; if the offence is committed for financial gain, through the use of tools designed to affect multiple systems, or causes damage on a large scale, the sentence may be up to 7 years.
In the case of offences committed by organised criminal groups, which cause particularly extensive damage or target critical infrastructure, the penalty will be between 5 and 10 years’ imprisonment.
Another amendment concerns the criminalisation of unauthorised access to passwords, access codes and similar data, where such access is intended for the purpose of committing cybercrimes.
The draft bill aims to bring national legislation into line with the EU Directive on attacks against information systems. The document is due to be examined at the Government meeting on 12 November.
This story was translated with the assistance of artificial intelligence.The translation was also reviewed by the Logos Press editorial team.
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