The article concentrates on the procedural
arrangements for copying electronic information on
criminal cases. Today this cognitive method can be
used during a search, seizure or inspection, and it
deserves to be recognized as an independent
investigative action. Unfortunately, the current
criminal procedure legislation does not meet the
requirements for the development of modern
telecommunication relations. This fully applies to
the copying of electronic information. To overcome
this gap, it’s proposed to include in the Criminal
Procedure Law the Article 186.2, which reflects the
main aspects of this issue.
Copying of electronic information is a sequence of
performed operations – structural elements of the
general system of the cognitive technique. For their
successful implementation an investigator must know
the whole algorithm of carrying out this procedural
action. When copying information, conditions
excluding the possibility of its loss or change
should be provided.
