Status quo assessment and analysis of primary challenges and shortcoming

This document is the deliverable D4.2 providing an overview of existing procedures for exchanging electronic evidence at national and European levels. Moreover it proposes a standard for representing data and metadata involved in the Exchange process and formal languages for their representation. Finally it introduces a cloud platform for implementing the Exchange process, listing the main features that this platform should have and putting the focus for a desirable integration with other existing platforms already in place and managed by an European/International public body. In composing this overview we have considered the following sources: ? existing guidelines and technical standards; ? practical and operational feedback by Law Enforcement Agencies and forensics specialists by means of questionnaires/interviews and workshops with expert group meetings both in the legal and technical fields.