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On 14-15 November 2019, the Finnish Customs and OLAF organised a high-level conference in Helsinki at which participants discussed current trends and appropriate responses to customs fraud. The event (entitled “Strategies to fight customs fraud in a globalised trading landscape”) brought together national customs officials …

After the European Commission announced in December 2018 that the EU achieved its goals of training legal practitioners on EU law in 2017 already – two years ahead of schedule (see eucrim 1/2019, p. 10) – the Commission confirmed that even more records were …

On 3 December 2019, the CJEU dismissed an action of the Czech Republic that sought the annulment of Directive 2017/853 of 17 May 2017 amending Council Directive 91/477/EEC on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons. The case reference is C-482/17.In view …

On 6-7 November 2019, the Salzburg Forum met in Vienna/Austria. Austria briefed the home affairs ministers of the EU Member States at the JHA Council meeting on 2-3 December 2019 about the outcome of the meeting. The ministers for the interior at the Salzburg Forum …

The Finnish Council Presidency summed up the outcome of discussions on the EU’s way forward regarding internal security issues. The discussion was launched at the beginning of the Finnish Presidency in July 2019 (see eucrim 2/2019, p. 84). The final Presidency report was discussed …

In December 2019, the Council General Secretariat’s Criminal Law Team published a compendium of selected texts on legal instruments (106 texts) relevant for EU criminal law. It includes instruments adopted by the EU Institutions on the following:Cooperation in criminal matters (including mutual recognition of …

The Finnish Council Presidency updated the JHA Ministers about the progress achieved on current legislative proposals in the area of freedom, security and justice during its presidency at the Council meeting on 2-3 December 2019. In the area of home affairs, the proposals include:Regulation …

On 1 December 2019, the new European Commission under the lead of its new President, Ms Ursula von der Leyen, marked the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. The 1st of December 2019 also marked ten years of …

On 20 December 2019, Europol published a new report, giving an overview on the status of access of EU Member States to electronic evidence held by foreign-based Online Service Providers (OSPs) in the context of criminal investigations. Looking at the year 2018, the new …

On 22 November 2019, the heads of the nine EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) agencies met at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. The topics of discussion were as follows:Implementation of the New Strategic Agenda 2019-2024;State-of-play of the interoperability project;Common efforts in …