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At the end of October, Frontex signed a contract with Chenega Europe to provide the agency with human intelligence training. Chenega Europe is a subsidiary of the Chenega Corporation, which specializes in the delivery of professional services such as training, analysis, and security solutions focused …

Since the end of October 2020, the Frontex website contains a new section bringing together information on all EU funded projects of interest to the EU Border and Coast Guard community, e.g., the different Horizon projects (for instance, ANDROMEDA, BorderSENS, Compass2020, PERCEPTIONS, etc.). The new …

Since October 2020, Eurojust has been hosting the second phase of the EuroMed Justice Programme. This progamme, which started in May 2020 and is funded by the European Commission, aims at enhancing cross-border strategic collaboration in criminal matters and improving capacity building with the …

On 12 October 2020, the EU Ministers of Justice approved Eurojust’s Annual Report 2019 (à eucrim news dated 9 July 2020). In its conclusions, the Council particularly welcomes Eurojust’s efforts to safeguard operational continuity in light of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Furthermore, …

On 13 October 20202, Ladislav Hamram was re-elected as president of Eurojust during a virtual meeting of Eurojust’s College. The priorities of Mr. Hamram’s second term include continuing the digitalisation of justice as well as extending Eurojust’s global scope with partners outside the EU. Additionally, …

At the end of September 2020, a large-scale series of operations coordinated by Eurojust and Europol led to the arrests of 179 vendors of illicit goods on the Dark Web across Europe and the United States. The operations also led to the seizure of €6.5 …

On 5 October 2020, the EDPS published a decision on its inquiry concerning Europol’s processing of “large datasets,” i.e., contributions received from Member States and other operational partners or collected in the context of open source intelligence activities.The EDPS found that Europol’s processing of …

According to a study by the law and policy consultant “milieu” on the practice of direct exchanges of personal data between Europol and private parties that was commissioned by the European Commission (and made public in November 2020), the revision of Europol’s current Regulation is …

On 15 October 2020, the political group “Review Europe” of the European Parliament hosted a webinar to discuss the reinforcement of Europol’s powers and to increase its financial resources. Panellists included several MEPs as well as representatives of Europol, the EDPS, the European Commission, and …

On 19 October 2020, the European Commission published its Work Programme 2021, entitled “A Union of vitality in a world of fragility”. It is supplemented by four annexes.The Work Programme contains new legislative initiatives across all six headline ambitions that were described …