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On 28 November 2023, the Commission presented a bundle of measures to reinforce the prevention and fight against migrant smuggling. A new Directive will replace the current legal framework on the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and stay in the EU. A new Regulation is designed to strengthen police cooperation in the fight against migrant smuggling with a central, more important role of Europol.

The European Commission adopted a legislative package on the digital euro on 28 June 2023. It included a proposal to establish a legal framework for a possible digital euro. More specifically, the proposal establishes the framework for the European Central Bank (ECB) to issue the …

On 24 October 2023, DAC8 was published in the Official Journal of the EU. The amendments targeting better administrative cooperation in the field of taxation aim to strengthen the fight against tax evasion, among others, by extending registration and reporting obligations and by including crypto assets into the scope of Directive 2011/16/EU.

At the end of November 2023, the EP adopted its negotiating position on the new EU law on the prevention and combat of child sexual abuse online. The EP advocates a better balance between the need to fight child sexual abuse online and to avoid generalised monitoring of the internet. In addition, end-to-end encrypted material should be excluded from detection.

The EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes was updated on 17 October 2023. Three jurisdictions were added to the blacklist (Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Seychelles), two were moved to the "grey list" (British Virgin Islands and Costa Rica), and one country (Marshall …

On 24 October 2023, the Commission released the 2023 report on the VAT gap in the EU. The VAT gap refers to the difference between expected value-added tax (VAT) revenue and the actual amount collected. As VAT is an important contributor to both EU …

On 22 October 2023, the EU Tax Observatory published a report on tax evasion, which deals with the effects of far-reaching initiatives to reduce international tax evasion. Prepared by the staff of the EU Tax Observatory, a research laboratory dedicated to international tax …

As part of their transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA), designated Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines have published their first transparency reports.

This news item continues the reporting on key EU reactions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 in view of the impact on the EU's internal security policy, criminal law, and the protection of the EU’s financial interests. The overview covers the period from beginning of July 2023 to the end of September 2023. It connects to previous overviews, which were published in the eucrim issues of 2022 and 1/2023.

In May and August 2023, the Commission updated the EU list of high-risk third countries with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes. Currently, 132 jurisdictions worldwide are subject to review and assessments by the EU institutions since their AML/CFT standard is low.