E-ISSN 2281-4612 ISSN 2281-3993 Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy Vol 5 No 1 March 2016 127 The Regulation of Cyber Crime in Albania in the Framework of Harmonization of Internal Legislation with the European Legislation Aldo Shkembi, PhD Lecturer of “European University of Tirana”; Email: aldo-sh86@hotmail.com Indrit Shtupi, PhD Lecturer of “Windom University”; Email: indritshtupi@yahoo.com Arjan Qafa, PhD Inspector of "Supreme Council of Justice"; E-mail, arjan.qafa@hotmail.com Doi:10.5901/ajis.2016.v5n1p127 Abstract The big social dangerousness of cybercrime and the increase of computer misuse, demand that his problem has to be addressed on certain law provisions. So, new interventions in penal codes are needed, interventions that will deal with this activity. In order to prohibit computer crime, many states are trying to find more efficient tools, methods and acts in this direction. Firstly, it is the juridical-penal regulation that has to be done, seeing the problem as a juridical protection fro the unauthorized interventions in computer systems. There has been discussion among low-making structures, with the approval of laws that has to do with the incrimination of the act of illegal intervention, concerning the moment when that intervention starts to be considered as a penal act. So, different states, see it as a penal act from the moment of the very first unauthorized intervention and some others from the moment that the smallest damage is caused. The aim of this paper is to make an overview of the regulation of cyber crime in Albania in the framework of harmonization of internal legislation with the european legislation. In recent years, Albania has worked for the establishment and implementation of international standards in the fight against organized crime, money laundry and corruption. Enough laws function in the national legislation such as: the law for electronic assignment, classified state information, protection of personal data, electronic communication, communication interception, for books, mail service etc. Keywords: Cybercrime, Covention, Harmonization, Computer system, Computer fraud, Computer falsification. 1. Introduction Related to the Albanian legislation on cyber crime in the range of the harmoization with the legale European Framework on Cyber crime, it is important to mention that there are also politics and documents and strategies confirmed, that help in the fight against cybercrime, from which the mos important are: The Sectorial Strategy of Society of Information; The Document of politics for electronic communication in the Republic of Albania; the Document of politics for development of telecommunication in the Republic of Albania; The decisions of the Council of Ministers for ratification of documents of politics and strategies etc. Some of the laws that help in the security of systems in society of information, are presented as below: - Nr. 9880 law, date 25.02.2008 “On electronic signature” - Nr. 9880 law, date 10.03.2008 “On protection of personal data” - Nr. 9643 law, date 20.11.2006, changed “On public procurements”, that makes possible the possibility of electronic procurement - Nr. 9723 law, date 3.05.2007 “On the National Center of Registration” - Nr. 9918 law, date 19.05.2008 “On electronic communication in the Republic of Albania” 2. The Albanian Legislation on Cyber Crime: The Ratification of Budapest Convention Until the penal legislative changes of 2008, there weren’t laws on penal acts in the computer field in Albania, although