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On 28 January 2019, GRECO published its fifth round evaluation report on Poland. The focus of this evaluation round is on preventing corruption and promoting integrity in central governments (top executive functions) and law enforcement agencies. The evaluation focuses particularly on issues, such as conflicts of interest, the declaration of assets, and accountability mechanisms.

On 8 April 2019, the Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, presented her first annual activity report before the Parliamentary Assembly.

On 1 April 2019, the Court elected Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos (Greece) as new President, Robert Spano (Iceland) as new Vice-President, and Ksenija Turković (Croatia) as new Section President. They took office on 5 May 2019.

If the national legislation of an EU Member State does not provide for legal remedies, by means of which the substantive reasons for an investigative measure requested by a European Investigation Order (EIO), cannot be challenged, this Member State is not entitled to use the EIO instrument. This far-reaching legal ramification was proposed by Advocate General Yves Bot in his opinion of 11 April 2019 in case C-324/17 (criminal proceedings against Ivan Gavanozov)

On 30 April 2019, AG Sánchez-Bordona presented his opinion in case C-128/18 (Dumitru-Tudor Dorobantur). The request for a preliminary ruling goes back to a demand by the Federal Constitutional Court that the referring court must ask the CJEU to further determine the factors relevant to the assessment of the detention conditions in the issuing State.

In its judgment of 12 February 2019, the CJEU dealt with the implication of non-compliance with the time limits for the decision to execute a European Arrest Warrant on maintaining the requested person’s extradition detention. The CJEU ultimately had to decide whether the Dutch law implementing Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA on the European Arrest Warrant (FD EAW) and the case law of the Amsterdam courts could be upheld against Art. 6 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (CFR).

On 17 April 2019, Frontex published a call for proposals for “Development and delivery of training activities for border and coast guards.” The call for proposals offers financial support to develop, review, and/or deliver training courses for border and/or coast guards. In line with …

In April 2019, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and Trend Micro Research published a joint Cyber-Telecom Crime Report 2019. Trend Microis a global provider of enterprise data security and cybersecurity solutions. The report intends to help stakeholders in the industry navigate the telecom threat landscape. …

On 25 March 2019, Europol’s European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC) published its activity report for the year 2018.The EMSC was set up in February 2016 to support Member States’ investigations and to increase cooperation and coordination among law enforcement agencies.According to the report, …

On 5 April 2019, Europol’s EC3 and the European Merchant Risk Council (MRC Europe) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to combat serious organised crime, especially in the area of e-commerce fraud. MRC is an independent, non-profit business association that promotes collaboration between eCommerce payment …