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At the meeting on 8 January 2019, the Council (General Affairs) approved conclusions on the Commission’s second progress report on the Implementation of the EU Strategy and Action Plan for Customs Risk Management. The Council, inter alia, welcomed the participation of customs …

In February 2019, the European Parliament published a study that examined abuse by some states of Interpol’s notice system to persecute national human rights defenders, civil society activists, and critical journalists in violation of international standards of human rights. The study, entitled “Misuse of …

At the JHA Council meeting on 7 March 2019, the Home Affairs Ministers of the EU Member States discussed achievements made in the past five years in the area of home affairs and the challenges ahead. The debate must be seen in the context of …

Can a Member State apply a term of imprisonment pending payment in order to execute a confiscation order adopted in another EU Member State? This was the main question the CJEU dealt with in the case C-97/18 (“ET”). The Court’s judgment …

On 17 January 2019 – on the eve of final deliberations in the Council that led to adoption of its general approach on the so-called whistleblower directive – the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) re-published an open letter calling for robust protection of persons …

On 25 January, the COREPER agreed to the Council’s general approach on the Commission’s proposal for a directive on the protection of persons reporting breaches of Union law (“the whistleblower Directive”, see eucrim 1/2018, p. 27 and G. Georgiadou, eucrim 3/2018, p. 166) …

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 …