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Strategic Plan 2018-2022
At the end of April 2018, FRA published its five-year Strategic Plan for the period 2018-2022. The plan identifies five priority areas that will guide the Agency’s work each year during this period. Read more
Cornelia Riehle LL.M.
EU
Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
New Scientific Committee Appointed
At the end of May 2018, FRA’s Management Board appointed 11 persons to its new Scientific Committee. The Scientific Committee is tasked with guaranteeing the scientific quality of FRA’s work and should therefore be involved in the early preparation stages of the majority of FRA’s documents. Read more
EU
Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
FRA Annual Activity Report Published
In June 2018, FRA published its Consolidated Annual Activity Report for 2017. The report outlines the agency’s achievements regarding strategic priorities and objectives, thematic areas, and its economy and efficiency in spending and non-spending activities. Read more
EU
Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Hate Crime Report Published
In June 2018, FRA published a report on hate crime recording and data collection practice across the EU. The report aims to assist police investigators, managers, hate crime officers, and policymakers as well as EU and intergovernmental organisations in their policymaking. Read more
EU
Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
20th Anniversary of EJN Foundation
During its 50th Plenary on 27-29 June 2018, the EJN celebrated its 20th anniversary. Read more
EU
European Judicial Network (EJN)
Cooperation in Psychoactive Substance and Precursor Cases: Report Published
In April 2018, Eurojust published a report analysing the current situation in judicial cooperation in new psychoactive substance (NPS) and precursor cases. Read more
EU
Eurojust
Practice: Global Airport Action Days
This year’s 11th Global Airport Action Days (GAAD) took place from 18 to 22 June 2018, resulting in arrests of more than 140 people in 61 countries. Read more
EU
Eurojust
Judicial Cooperation
First French-Greek JIT Successful
At the end of April 2018, the first Joint Investigation Team (JIT) ever established between France and Greece resulted in the arrest of four leaders of the Georgian mafia organisation “Vory V zakone.” Read more
EU
Eurojust
New Joint Investigation Teams
In May 2018, for the first time in their history, France and Italy as well as Italy and Poland signed agreements to form Joint Investigation Teams to cooperate in transnational cases. Read more
EU
Eurojust
Memorandum of Understanding on JIT Funding
On 1 July 2018, Eurojust and Europol signed a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure closer cooperation with regard to the funding of JITs. With the MoU, rules and conditions for the benefit of those requesting funding from the national authorities are established. Read more
EU
Europol
Eurojust
Liaison Prosecutor for Ukraine
On 18 August 2018, the first Liaison Prosecutor for the Ukraine, Ms Myroslava Krasnoborova, took up office at Eurojust. Read more
EU
Eurojust
Annual 2017 Report Published
Eurojust published its annual report for the year 2017 and infographics on Eurojust at work and Eurojust’s operations in 2017. Read more
EU
Eurojust
Agreement on Eurojust Regulation
On 19 June 2018, the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council, the European Parliament, and the European Commission agreed on the new Eurojust Regulation. The EU ambassadors confirmed the agreement on 20 June 2018. Read more
EU
Eurojust
Practice: Members of COSA NOSTRA Arrested
On 5 and 12 May 2018, Europol’s “Eurosearch” project, which was set up to locate and capture dangerous mafia fugitives in Europe, succeeded in the arrest of two of the most important Italian fugitives and members of the Italian Crime Syndicate COSA NOSTRA. Read more
EU
Europol
Practice: Webstresser.org Taken Down
On 24 April 2018, the world’s biggest marketplace by which to hire Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) services, webstresser.org, was shut down and its infrastructure seized. Read more
EU
Europol
Practice: Online Marketplace for Counterfeit Goods Taken Down
At the beginning of May 2018, one of the largest European law enforcement operations ever resulted in the shut-down of an illegal online marketplace selling counterfeit goods and pirated content. Read more
EU
Europol
Counterfeiting & Piracy