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On 30 September 2020, the Commission published a report assessing the measures taken by the Member States to comply with EU anti-terrorism legislation (Directive 2017/541 --> eucrim 2/2017, 69). The Member States had to implement the rules of the Directive by 8 September 2018. …

On 22 October 2020, the Council imposed restrictive measures against two persons and one body responsible for or involved in the cyberattacks on the German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) in April and May 2015. The persons/body concerned belonged to the Russian military intelligence. The attack …

On 20 October 2020, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) published the annual report on cyber threats – the “ENISA Threat Landscape 2020” (ETL 2020). The report identified and evaluated the top cyber threats in the EU between January 2019 and April 2020. It …

In its conclusions on intellectual property policy of 10 November 2020, the Council sets up a number of guidelines on better intellectual property enforcement. The Council is concerned that there is still a high number of counterfeit goods being offered on online marketplaces – …

In October 2020, the Commission sent a reasoned opinion to Cyprus for not having notified any measures for the transposition of the 5th Anti-Money-Laundering Directive (AMLD). The 5th AMLD was adopted in 2018 and further develops the obligations as laid down in the 4th AMLD …

In Opinion 5/2020, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) assesses the data protection implications of several measures proposed in the Commission’s action plan for a comprehensive Union policy on preventing money laundering and terrorism financing (eucrim 2/2020, 87-89). The EDPS welcomes several …

On 5 November 2020, the Council published conclusions on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism. The Council mainly encourages the Commission to further elaborate legislative proposals on an EU single rulebook, the structure and tasks of an EU AML/CFT supervisor, and a …

On 9 September 2020, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) published an opinion that assesses Commission’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). With more than €600 billion, the RRF is the biggest section within the planned Next Generation EU budget (NGEU) and will provide grants …

On 10 November 2020, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) presented its annual report on the 2019 financial year. Each year, the ECA audits the revenue and expenditure of the EU budget and provides a positive or negative opinion on the extent to which the …

Following intensive consultations, the German Council Presidency and the European Parliament reached agreement on the EU’s next long-term budget on 10 November 2020. At the initiative of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the EU has around €1.824 trillion available for the period …