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At the end of January 2022, Europol published a new report containing an overview of the illicit use of cryptocurrencies. The report provides core definitions, case examples, and details of the challenges authorities face in combating the illicit use of such digital currencies.In its …

On 25 January, Frontex conducted the first return operation which was fully initiated and organised by the Agency.

In January 2022, Frontex published the Justice and Home Affairs Agencies' Network activity report. The report summarizes the networks meetings, thematic reports and cooperation of the year 2021. Furthermore, the report outlines the priorities for 2022.

At the beginning of February 2022, Frontex launched a new operation at the EU’s external land border. Triggered by the increasing migratory movements along the EU’s external land borders, “Operation Terra 2022” is supposed to help EU Member States in the fight against migrant smuggling, …

At the beginning of March 2022, Frontex launched a new register of public documents. This is an online library containing public documents produced by the Agency since its foundation in 2004. The register can be searched by categories and subcategories, language, publication dates and …

At the beginning of March 2022, Frontex started assisting Romanian authorities in processing the number of people crossing the border from Ukraine in the wake of the Russian war and perform other border control-related tasks, if needed. Hence, the Agency sent about 150 officers, 45 …

This news item continues the overview of recent rule-of-law developments in Poland (as far as they relate to European law) since the last update in eucrim 4/2021, 200-201.

The provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) do not in principle prevent the tax administration from requiring a service provider on the internet to provide it with information on taxpayers, the CJEU ruled on 24 February 2022 in Case C-175/20. However, such …

On 1 March 2022, the Commission published its first annual report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The RRF is providing up to €723.8 billion (in current prices) of grants and loans to Member States to support transformative investments and reforms that boost …

The Council adopted a declaration on Interpol’s red notices. It welcomes the progress made by Interpol in setting up internal mechanisms to assess possible violations of Interpol’s constitution. Interpol is invited to a regular dialogue and continue efforts to prevent red notices from abuse.