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In its judgments of 22 February 2022 in the Joined Cases C-562/21 PPU and C-563/21 PPU, the CJEU upheld its case-law on the refusal of European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) issued by Polish authorities if the requested person put forward infringements of fair trial. The …

January 2022 saw the start of the new EMPACT cycle 2022-2025 to fight organised and serious international crime. In March 2022, the French Council Presidency outlined the impacts of the war in Ukraine on the EMPACT policy.

On 25 March 2022, the European Commission announced that a preliminary political agreement had been reached on the principles of the future framework for transatlantic data flows. New negotiations with the U.S. government had become necessary after the CJEU toppled the predecessor agreement, the EU-US …

The ongoing rollout of biometric identification systems is likely to see ethnic minority citizens and non-citizens subjected to a growing number of unwarranted intrusions into their everyday activities, says a report by Statewatch, published in February 2022.

In a resolution of 10 March 2022, the EP calls on the Commission to take urgent action and immediately apply the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism. On 5 April 2022, Commission President von der Leyen told that the conditionality mechanism will be applied vis-à-vis Hungary.

On 2 March 2022, the European Commission published guidelines on the application of Regulation 2020/2092 setting out the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (the “Conditionality Regulation”). The guidelines explain more clearly and precisely how the Commission will apply the Regulation.

On 22 March 2022, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the main findings of the second round of reviews of authorities’ approaches to the supervision of banks regarding anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). These review reports are part of the EBA’s …

On 17 February 2022, the EP made several recommendation aiming at strengthening the fight against corruption in the EU and third countries. MEPs, inter alia, call for a comprehensive EU anti-corruption strategy and better transparency and accountability of public bodies.

On 8 March 2022, the CJEU ruled that the United Kingdom has failed to fulfil its obligations in relation to customs control and the availability of EU own resources by failing to adopt the measures necessary to combat fraud with regards to undervalued imports of textiles and footwear from China. In particular, the UK had to take into account OLAF risk analysis tools.

At the beginning of its Council Presidency, France initiated discussion of whether the post-hit procedure in the Schengen Information System (SIS) for alerts related to terrorism should be improved. It is proposed that all Member States having previously volunteered receive alerts on certain terrorists and are mandatorily and automatically informed of the hits.