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On 18 December 2019, GRECO published an ad hoc report on Greece. In the past, GRECO, together with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), had strongly criticised the Greek government for watering down the anti-corruption legislation already in place ‒ …

On 20 December 2019, GRECO and the Federation for Education in Europe (FEDE), an international NGO having participatory status with the CoE, presented an education module on anti-corruption for the 2019-2020 academic year. The module includes summary sheets, takeaway messages, and test questions. It will …

The three-day seminar brought together 38 European judicial and legal practitioners and academics from eight EU Member States looking at use of the European Arrest Warrant. It is part of a series of seminars to be continued in Bucharest/Romania and Lisbon/Portugal in 2020. The aim of EAW AWARE is to support, discuss, and build mutual trust and recognition of decisions between neighbouring European judiciaries and to promote consistent use of the EAW tool by European bodies.

Legal experts met in Sarnico/Italy for the fourth edition of the international conference to brainstorm on current developments in extradition law and the practice of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW). This report summarises the presentations and looks at the Vth edition to be held in June 2020.

On 12 August 2019, the Council of Europe’s Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) published its fourth round evaluation report on Germany. A summary of the report is available here. The report in German can be retrieved here.GRECO found an “overall …

The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) elected Professor Anja Seibert-Fohr as new judge to the European Court of Human Rights on 27 July 2019. Her term of nine years commenced on 1 January 2020. Professor Anja Seibert-Fohr succeeds Professor Angelika Nußberger who has been …

On 6 November 2019, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued his opinion on the new EU legal framework for gathering e-evidence in cross-border cases (for the Commission proposal, see eucrim 1/2018, pp. 35-36).The EDPS endorses the objective of ensuring quick and effective …

After the EP elections, the EP Conference of Presidents decided in October 2019 that work should resume on the EU e-evidence rules. The e-evidence package consists of two proposals tabled by the European Commission in April 2018 (see eucrim 1/2018, pp. 35-36): a Regulation on …

On 29 October 2019, twenty privacy, civil liberties, and human rights organizations jointly addressed U.S. Congress committee chairmen to stop the US-UK CLOUD Act Executive Agreement signed on 3 October 2019. It will allow direct access by the party’s law enforcement bodies to personal data …

At a hearing on 7 November 2019 at the EP’s LIBE Committee, MEPs called for meeting EU data protection standards within the framework of possible future data exchanges by means of the U.S. CLOUD Act. The CLOUD Act allows U.S. law enforcement authorities to request …