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Overview of Convictions in EPPO Cases: April - June 2024
The following overview highlights court verdicts and alternative resolutions in EPPO cases. It breaks down the EPPO's news reports from April to June 2024 and continues the overview published in → eucrim 6 May 2024 // preprint issue 1/2024. The overview is in reverse … Read more
Cornelia Riehle LL.M.
EU
European Public Prosectutor's Office (EPPO)
Protection of Financial Interests
New Pact on Migration and Asylum
After three years of hard and complex negotiations, the European Parliament and the Council formally adopted the new Pact on Migration and Asylum in May 2024. It is one of the most important EU legislations in the area of home affairs in the recent years and follows a holistic approach: introducing a new legislative framework on migration and asylum while supporting Member States through operational and targeted actions. Read more
EU
Legislation
Frontex
EU Reactions to Russian War against Ukraine: Overview February – June 2024
This news item continues the reporting on key EU reactions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022: the impact of the invasion on the EU’s internal security policy, on criminal law, and on the protection of the EU’s financial interests. The overview covers the period from the beginning of February 2024 to the end of June 2024. Read more
Dr. Anna Pingen
Thomas Wahl
EU
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Ukraine conflict
Protection of Financial Interests
New Directive to Strengthen Anti-Human Trafficking
On 24 June 2024, Directive (EU) 2024/1712 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims was published in the EU's Official Journal. It entered into force … Read more
EU
Legislation
Trafficking in Human Beings
Final Approval and Publication of the AI Act
After the Council's final green light on 21 May 2024, the pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, establishing the first comprehensive global regulatory framework for AI, was published in the EU’s Official Journal on 12 July 2024 (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). The AI Act prohibits certain AI … Read more
EU
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Legislation
ECA: EU’s Control System on Cohesion Spending Is Not Working
In a report, published on 8 July 2024, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) found that the EU’s control system on cohesion spending is not working. Based on audits carried out during the 2014-2022 programming period and on information made available by the Commission, … Read more
EU
Protection of Financial Interests
Poland: Rule-of-Law Developments in the First Half of 2024
This news item continues the overview of the rule-of-law developments in Poland (as far as they are relevant under a European law perspective). It covers the period from the second half of January to the end of June 2024 and follows the overview in → eucrim 4/2023, 308-312. Read more
EU
Rule of Law
Law Enforcement Experts: Action against End-to-End Encryption Needed
European police chiefs called on industry and governments to take urgent action to ensure public safety on social media platforms. The privacy measures currently in place, such as end-to-end encryption, prevent technology companies from identifying and reporting all offences on their platforms. They will also … Read more
EU
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Security Union
Digital Space Regulation
Europol
Law Enforcement Cooperation
Hungary : Rule-of-Law Developments in the First Half of 2024
This news item continues eucrim’s regular overview of concerning rule-of-law developments in Hungary as far as implications on Union law, in particular the protection of the EU’s financial interests, are concerned. It covers the period from the second half of January until the end of June 2024. It follows up on the overview in eucrim 4/2023, 309-312, which covered developments up to mid-January 2024. Read more
EU
Rule of Law
New Factsheet: The EAW Under the Case Law of the CJEU and ECtHR
In June 2024, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), together with the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), prepared a factsheet on the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) and the EU Member States' obligations to respect fundamental rights. The factsheet highlights jurisprudence in selected … Read more
Council of Europe
EU
Fundamental Rights
European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Justice (ECJ)
Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
European Arrest Warrant
25 Years of Europol
2024 marks the year in which Europol celebrates its 25th anniversary. What originally began as the European Drugs Unit in 1994 has, over the last 25 years, grown into Europol: an organisation with more than 1700 staff members and 295 liaison officers working at … Read more
EU
Europol
Spotlight Comprehensive AML/CFT Reform Finalised
On 19 June 2024, several pieces of legislation with new rules fighting money laundering (ML) and the financing of terrorism (FT) were published in the EU's Official Journal. This news item provides an overview of the legal acts and the main novelties of the general overhaul of the EU's rules on AML/CFT, including the new central Anti-Money-Laundering Authority. Details of the acts are explained in separate news items (→ related links). Read more
EU
Money Laundering
Spotlight Tasks, Powers and Structures of the New EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA)
On 19 June 2024, Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 establishing the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) was published in the EU’s Official Journal. AMLA main tasks will be to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the EU rules to counter money laundering and terrorist financing. The seat of the new authority will be Frankfurt a.M., Germany. Read more
EU
Money Laundering
Spotlight The EU’s New AML Single Rulebook Regulation
Obligations for private entities to prevent the use of the financial system from money laundering and terrorist financing are now prescribed in a directly applicable Regulation. Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 was published in the Official Journal of the EU of 19 June 2024. It replaces the system to date that has regulated said obligations in Directives. Read more
EU
Money Laundering
New Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD 6)
On 19 June 2024, the sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive was published in the Official Journal of the EU. It mainly deals with organisational and institutional issues of the preventive framework that are addressed respectively to the Member States, their supervisory authorities, and Financial Intelligence Units. Read more
EU
Money Laundering
New Directive: Access of National Authorities to Future Interconnection System of Bank Account Information
Directive 2024/1654 is the fourth legal act in the EU’s AML/CFT package that was published in the Official Journal of 19 June 2024. The Directive complements the Anti-Money Laundering Directive (Directive 2024/1620 [AMLD 6] → separate news item). It ensures that designated national authorities … Read more
EU
Money Laundering