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22-23 November 2018, The Hague Europol published the conference report of an inspiring, unconventional data protection conference that took place at Europol headquarters in autumn 2018.Speakers and participants came from different sectors all over the world, including practicing officials and lawyers, data protection …

Do Art. 325 TFEU and the PIF Convention – read in the light of the principle of effective prosecution of VAT offences – restrict the applicability of national rules on the inadmissibility of evidence? This question was at the core of the CJEU’s judgment of …

On 4 February 2019, the Commission presented its fourth evaluation of the Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online. The Code of Conduct was launched on 21 May 2016 to ensure that requests to remove racist and xenophobic Internet content are dealt quickly …

In January 2019, the German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein ˗ DAV) tabled a critical statement on the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online (for the proposal, see eucrim 2/2018, pp. 97-98 and G. Robinson, eucrim 4/2018, pp. 234-240 …

In January 2019, the Commission launched and went ahead with further infringement proceedings against EU Member States for not having correctly transposed the fourth Anti-Money-Laundering Directive. The infringement proceedings are in different stages. They concern Germany, Belgium, Finland, France, Lithuania, Portugal, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Poland, and …

At the meeting of 7 March 2019, the JHA Council unanimously rejected a list of 23 “high-risk third countries”in the area of money laundering and terrorist financing. The list was put forward by the Commissionon 13 February 2019. The list aims to protect …

On 19 January 2019, the European Parliament adopted its position on the regulation on the protection of the Union’s budget in case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the Member States. In essence, the EP backs the Commission’s idea in its …

In a special report of 10 January 2019,the European Court of Auditors (ECA) details weaknesses in the Commission’s fight against fraud in EU spending. According to the report, OLAF’s administrative investigations resulted in recovery of less than a third of unduly paid funds. Furthermore, …

On 18 February 2019, OLAF reported on a successful international operation which culminated in the search and seizure of 400 tons of counterfeit shampoo with an estimated retail value of €5 million. The fake haircare products stem from China and were shipped to Latin America …

In 2017, over 180,000 legal practitioners (judges, prosecutors, court staff, lawyers, bailiffs, and notaries) took part in training activities on EU law or the law of another Member State. With this record number since reporting on European judicial training began in 2011, the EU already …