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On 23 February 2022, OLAF informed of the results of its operations against tobacco smuggling in 2021 (for the results in 2020 → eucrim 1/2021, 14). In 2021, world-wide operations involving OLAF were able to seize over 430 million illicit cigarettes in total. The …

On 16 February 2022, a joint operation between OLAF and the Polish police dismantled a gang that dealt with counterfeit medical products, such as medicine to treat erectile dysfunction, anabolic substances and growth hormones. The value of the seized goods is estimated at almost €9 …

On 19 January 2022, OLAF reported on the results of a joint investigation team (JIT) involving OLAF, the Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and the Prosecution Office of the Italian commune of Enna. The investigations revealed practices of a criminal group that defrauded EU agricultural …

The CJEU delivered a judgment on the Romanian rules and practice to hinder ordinary courts to assess compatibility of national provisions with EU law. According to the judges in Luxembourg, EU law precludes a national rule under which national courts have no jurisdiction to examine the conformity with EU law of national legislation which has been held to be constitutional by a judgment of the constitutional court of the Member State.

On 2 March 2022, the Court of Justice of the EU published its judicial statistics for the year 2021.Looking at the number of cases brought before the Court of Justice and the General Court, the year 2021 once again confirmed the upward trend with …

A report by the Commission's Joint Research Centre assessed the current state of utilisation of data innovation in the scientific literature identified areas in which data innovation has the most concrete potential for policy-making. The report focused on the areas of demography, mobility, and migration.

The Commission proposed a declaration with a set of principles that will serve as guidance for a sustainable, human-centric, and value-based digital transformation in the European Union.

On 20 January 2022, the European Parliament adopted its position regarding the proposal for a regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services. The EP amended several dispositions of the Commission proposal.

A report found by the European Court of Auditors found that, while EU action has contributed to reforms in technical and operational areas (e.g. improving the efficiency of the judiciary), it has had little overall impact on fundamental rule-of-law reforms in the Western Balkans.

In his opinion of 20 January 2022, AG Giovanni Pitruzzella concluded that the fourth anti-money laundering (AML) Directive as amended by the fifth AML Directive is partly invalid. In essence, the case addresses the question of balancing transparency requirements with respect for fundamental rights.