With regard to penalties the Convention provides that each Member State shall take "the necessary measures to ensure that the conduct referred to is punishable by effective, proportionate and dissuasive criminal penalties, including, at least in serious cases, penalties involving deprivation of liberty which can give rise to extradition", which will take place after ratification by the fifteen Member States.
Pour ce qui est des sanctions, la Convention prévoit que chaque Etat membre prenne "les mesures nécessaires pour assurer que les comportements visés soient passibles de sanctions pénales effectives, proportionnées et dissuasives, incluant, au moins dans les cas graves, des peines privatives de liberté pouvant entraîner l'extradition", qui interviendra qprès la ratification par les quinze Etats membres.