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The EU's spending in 2022 amounted to €196 billion, which was marked by a significant increase in the level of error, which is why two thirds of the audited expenditure must be considered high-risk. This is one of the main findings in the European Court of Auditors' (ECA) annual reports on the implementation of the EU budget.

In a special report of October 2023, the ECA concluded that the monitoring elements of the RRF are insufficient for measuring the overall performance, i.e. it is unclear to which extent the goals of the fund, such as making European economy greener and more resilient, were achieved. In addition problems of data quality and weaknesses in the reporting system were observed.

In a report of 24 October 2023, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice examined the impact of the EU e-evidence package on service providers based in Switzerland and on mutual legal assistance between Switzerland and the EU/EU Member States.

On 20 October 2023, the JHA Council adopted conclusions on digital empowerment to protect and enforce fundamental rights in the digital age. They highlight the importance of ensuring that fundamental rights of citizens are preserved and protected in an increasingly digitalised world.

On 23 November 2023, the Commission released several documents which aim to foster cooperation between the Member States of the Schengen area. The Commission makes several recommendation on how Member States can avoid long-lasting internal border controls in order to react to threats to internal security and public policy.

In light of the latest revelations on money laundering and evasion of sanctions against Russia in Cyprus, MEPs discussed counter-measures together with representatives from the Council n and the Commission in a hearing on 22 November 2023.

In its decision of 8 June 2023, the ECJ clarified the extent to which the Member States must recover European Union structural funds if there is merely a suspicion of corruption in the award of public contracts financed with them, even though the suspicion is substantiated by the initiation of administrative or judicial proceedings.

On 6 July 2023, the ECJ clarified the consequences to be drawn from its case law on the lacking independence of public prosecution services so that they cannot be recognised as "issuing judicial authority" within the meaning of Art. 6(1) of the Framework Decision on …

In its judgment of 14 September 2023, the ECJ ruled on the extent Member State courts must take account of fundamental rights when it comes to extradition on the basis of the Agreement on the surrender procedure between the EU and Iceland/Norway. In addition, the Court had to decide as to which extent decisions taken in other EU Member States in the extradition case can be taken into account by the executing court.

On 6 September 2023, the General Court (GC) dismissed the action for annulment of parts of the new Europol Regulation brought by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) as inadmissible. The GC argued that the EDPS is not directly concerned by the contested provisions.