It calls for strengthening international cooperation in the legal sphere. For our part, we must better coordinate the various services working against these crimes. To this end, Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou, Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chev nement, and myself have decided to create a central bureau to fight computer crime within the national police administration. It will be operational within the next few weeks. We must also consider the possible consequences of this type of crime for national security.
Information networks are a vital infrastructure for our country.
What they carry may be virtual in nature, but the attacks that target them are very real indeed. That is why I have instructed the national defence Secretariat to study and develop awareness of this problem. We are adapting our laws to the growth of the information society. The Administration has already prepared three major bills in this area. First of all, the next meeting of the Cabinet will examine a bill adapting the law of evidence to information technology and electronic signatures.