The RIPE NCC receives information requests from Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and tries to facilitate the provision of any required publicly available information. The RIPE NCC does not provide any confidential or private information to LEAs without a court order or other legally enforceable order or request under Dutch law.
In 2022, the RIPE NCC received 186 information requests from LEAs, 2 of which were binding requests from Dutch law enforcement authorities. Overall, the RIPE NCC received a significantly higher number of LEA requests compared to previous years – during the period 2016-2021, the highest number of LEA requests received in a year was 60.
A particularly high number of requests this year came from a party in France, which repeatedly asked for information not available to the RIPE NCC. Despite the fact that the role of the RIPE NCC and the procedure it applies on receiving LEA requests was explained, the RIPE NCC still received further requests for the same type of information from this party.
In general, despite the number of LEA requests from several different jurisdictions, LEAs seem to acknowledge the RIPE NCC’s procedures when the RIPE NCC advised that it either did not have the information or required a Dutch court order for non-public information.
For non-public information:
For public information:
For information the RIPE NCC does not have:
For information not related to the RIPE NCC:
LEA Request |
2022 |
2021 |
2020 |
2019 |
2018 |
2017 |
For non-public information |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
For publicly available information |
5 |
8 |
4 |
9 |
2 |
2 |
For information the RIPE NCC does not have |
177 |
44 |
45 |
44 |
49 |
4 |
For information not related to the RIPE NCC |
2 |
2 |
8 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
Order for a Specific Action |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Total |
186 |
57 |
59 |
60 |
51 |
6 |
Country of Origin |
2022 |
2021 |
2020 |
2019 |
2018 |
2017 |
Andorra |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
Argentina |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
Australia |
4 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
|
Austria |
1 |
2 |
|
1 |
|
|
Belarus |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Belgium |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Brazil |
2 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
Canada |
|
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
Czech Republic |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
Denmark |
2 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Estonia |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
France |
121 |
8 |
6 |
|
|
|
Germany |
6 |
7 |
8 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
Hungary |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
India |
11 |
6 |
9 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
Ireland |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Italy |
|
|
2 |
1 |
|
1 |
Japan |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
Lithuania |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
Netherlands |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
|
New Zealand |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Norway |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
Poland |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Portugal |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
1 |
|
Puerto Rico |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
Russia |
2 |
1 |
4 |
|
1 |
|
Singapore |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
South Korea |
3 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
Spain |
|
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
Switzerland |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
Ukraine |
|
2 |
2 |
|
1 |
|
United Kingdom |
1 |
|
2 |
1 |
|
|
United States |
19 |
16 |
11 |
39 |
38 |
2 |