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On 5 October 2022, Europol and the Ministry of Interior of the State of Qatar signed a Working Arrangement to prevent and combat serious crime and terrorism. Under the arrangement, parties can exchange information under a secure system as well as specialist knowledge, general situation …

On 18 October 2022, the European Commission published its Work Programme for the year 2023. Several new initiatives and ideas were presented in the area of justice and home affairs.

On 16 September 2022, the EDPS requested the CJEU to annul two provisions of the newly amended Europol Regulation, which retroactively legalised Europol’s practice of processing large volumes of individuals’ personal data with no established link to criminal activity. This runs counter to the EDPS' order of January 2022.

At the end of June 2022, Frontex issued its annual report on the agency's cooperation with third countries for the year 2021. The report sets out the respective highlights in 2021, the dialogues and cooperation frameworks that were continued and/or established over the past year, the agency’s technical and operational cooperation, and capacity-building measures.

Within the framework of the Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community (AFIC), Frontex and Mauritanian authorities opened a risk analysis cell in Nouakchott on 20 September 2022. Risk analysis cells collect and analyse data on cross-border crime, such as information on illegal border crossings, document fraud, trafficking in …

By the end of August 2022, Frontex recorded the highest total of irregular entries in the January-August period since 2016. With 188,200 irregular entries detected at the external borders of the EU in the first eight month of 2022, the number had increased by 75% …

On 8 September 2022, the first High-Level Network on Returns was launched, comprising expert representatives from Member States and Schengen Associated Countries` institutions responsible for returns. The network aims at coordinating the efforts made by all Member States to ensure effective returns on the EU …

In September 2022, FRA published the annual update on its report on the forced return monitoring systems that EU Member States have set up under Art. 8(6) of the EU’s Return Directive (2008/115/EC). By means of a table comparing developments in the EU Member States, …

On 16 September 2022, FRA’s management board elected Jim Clarken as its new chairperson. The agency’s management board consists of one independent member per Member State as well as two representatives of the European Commission and one independent person appointed by the Council of Europe. …

Celebrating six years of the launch of the portal No More Ransom (→ eucrim 3/2016, p. 128), Europol took stock of the successful public-private partnership. Today, the portal offers 136 free tools for 165 ransomware variants in order to assist victims of ransomware . Together …