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Directive 2013/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the… Article 7

Directive 2013/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the… Article 7

Tools used for committing offences

Article 7

Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the intentional production, sale, procurement for use, import, distribution or otherwise making available, of one of the following tools, without right and with the intention that it be used to commit any of the offences referred to in Articles 3 to 6, is punishable as a criminal offence, at least for cases which are not minor: (a) a computer programme, designed or adapted primarily for the purpose of committing any of the offences referred to in Articles 3 to 6; (b) a computer password, access code, or similar data by which the whole or any part of an information system is capable of being accessed.

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