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On 1 December 2020, Frontex and the General Secretariat of the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council co-organised the first Euro-Arab Technical Roundtable on Border Management and Security. The round table brought together representatives from 18 EU states and 14 Arab states. Issues discussed at the …

On 1-3 December 2020, Frontex held its second International Conference on Biometrics for Borders (ICBB), focussing on the implementation of the Entry/Exit System (EES) that will start at the EU’s external border in February 2022. The virtual conference brought together experts from border guard …

On 16 November 2020, Eleni Kouzoupi took up her position as National Member for Cyprus at Eurojust. Before joining Eurojust, Ms Kouzoupi served as Counsellor on Justice and Home Affairs matters at the Cypriot Permanent Representation in Brussels. She succeeds Katerina Loizou who held the …

On 17 November 2020, the College of Eurojust elected Boštjan Škrlec as its Vice-President for the next four years. Mr. Škrlec has been National Member for Slovenia at Eurojust since 2017.

At the end of November 2020, José de la Mata Amaya took up position as new National Member for Spain at Eurojust. Before joining Eurojust, Mr de la Mata Amaya served as judge of the Central Investigative Court No 5 of the Spanish National Court. …

On 19 November 2020, the European Commission issued a Recommendation for a Council Decision to authorise the opening of negotiations for Agreements between the EU and ten third States, in order to foster judicial cooperation with Eurojust. The States include Algeria, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, …

On 20 November 2020, the heads of the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Agencies met virtually to exchange ideas on Artificial Intelligence and digital capacity building as well as training tools and innovative learning. As a next step, the JHA agencies agreed to draw …

At the end of November 2020, Hungarian authorities, supported by law enforcement authorities from Austria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and by Eurojust, dismantled an Organised Crime Group (OCG) involving large-scale VAT fraud. The OCG had been operating a multi-level company network …

On 1 December 2020 − for the first time since the Eurojust Regulation became applicable in December 2019 −, Members of the European Parliament and national parliaments of the EU Member States convened (in a virtual meeting) to evaluate the Eurojust’s activities. In order to …

On 1 December 2020, Eurojust, Europol, and the European Judicial Network (EJN) published the SIRIUS EU Digital Evidence Situation Report 2020. It provides an analysis of the access EU Member States currently have to electronic evidence held by online service providers (OSPs) as well …