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On 25 September 2019, the General Court of the European Union celebrated its 30th anniversary. On 25 September 1989, the first members of the Court took up their duties after the General Court of the EU had been set up by a Council Decision …

For the period from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2025, the terms of office of the following 12 Judges of the General Court were renewed: Ms Vesna Tomljenović, Ms Mariyana Kancheva, Ms Inga Reine, Ms Ramona Frendo, Mr. Anthony Collins, Mr. Stéphane Gervasoni, …

At the end of September 2019, Mr. Marc van der Woude was elected President of the General Court for the period from 27 September 2019 to 31 August 2022. Mr. Van der Woude has been serving as Judge at the General Court since 2010 and …

On 30 September 2019, the Judges of the General Court elected the Presidents of their ten Chambers. The ten presidents elected for the period from 30 September 2019 to 31 August 2022 are Heikki Kanninen, Vesna Tomljenović, Anthony Michael Collins, Stéphane Gervasoni, Dean Spielmann, …

On 7 October 2019, two new judges, Niilo Jääskinen and Nils Wahl, took up their positions at the Court of Justice.Niilo Jääskinen, appointed for the period from 7 October 2019 to 6 October 2021, last served as Judge and Vice-President of the Supreme …

The Court of Justice of the European Union has added a new area to its website, which offers the following information:Open access to preliminary ruling cases;A compilation of relevant decisions delivered by national courts;Notes and studies in relation to research and …

25 practitioners and academics from all over Europe.discussed the future of the Network of Associations for European Criminal Law and for the Protection of the EU's Financial Interests at a meeting on 16 September 2019, organised by OLAF in Brussels. The purpose of the workshop was also to encourage the establishment of new associations or for existing associations to join the Network.

Criminal defense attorneys met for the 12th time in Bonn/Germany to discuss current challenges in the fields of criminal law and criminal procedure in the European Union. Numerous legal practitioners as well as judges and legal scholars working in the field of European criminal law analysed whether current developments involving the Europeanization of substantive criminal law and criminal procedure still allow constitutional developments.

On 7 March 2019, the Austrian Association of European Criminal Law together with the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Federal Justice Ministry organized a one-day conference on European Criminal law after the 2018 Austrian Council Presidency. The event raised great interest by many scholars and practitioners and covered three main topics.

The general objective of the project was to protect the EU's financial interests and to prevent and combat fraud, corruption, and other illicit activities. In this context, the project focused on new practical challenges, e.g. cybercrime. One of the main events was the Winter Academy “Current questions and answers relating to the criminal law protection of the financial interests of the European Union” from 14–16 February 2019 at the Hungarian Judicial Academy.