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On 28 August 2024, GRECO published its 5th Round Evaluation Report on Italy. The report addressed the effectiveness of the framework in place in Italy as regards the prevention of corruption among persons with top executive functions (PTEFs), and corruption prevention in law enforcement …

After a high-level visit to Slovakia on 26 September 2024, GRECO voiced concerns over the lack of process in the country’s fight against corruption. GRECO stated that Slovakia has largely not complied with GRECO’s recommendations from the 5th evaluation round addressing the prevention of corruption …

At its 86th Plenary meeting, the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) took important decisions on the advancement of cooperation and prevention in criminal matters. These include approval of the draft Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law, and approval of the draft Third Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters.

On 14 November 2024, the Council of Europe published a new factsheet summarising the ECtHR’s case law on Article 18 ECHR, which limits the use of restriction on human rights guaranteed in the Convention. Article 18 ECHR ensuring that restrictions on rights and freedoms …

What parameters should govern police access to cell phone data? The ECJ’s Grand Chamber landmark ruling in the Case C-548/21 (“Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck”) stressed that access is not necessarily limited to the fight against serious crime; instead, national legislation must have safeguards to uphold the principle of proportionality.

On 5 September 2024, Advocate General (AG) Nicholas Emiliou presented his opinion in case C-763/22 (Procureur de la République v OP). The case concerns the conditions under which EU Member States may decide on the competition between a European Arrest Warrant and …

In the context of a reference for a preliminary ruling from Italy, the ECJ ruled on 7 November 2024 that the Italian scheme on compensation for victims of violent intentional crime which makes the right to compensation dependent on the order of succession of a deceased person is incompatible with the Directive relating to compensation to crime victims.

EU support for Member States to digitalise their healthcare systems was overall effective, but EU funds were difficult to use due to the number of different rules. These are the main findings in the European Court of Auditor's (ECA's) Special Report No 25/24 which was released on 20 November 2024.

On 25 September 2024, the European Commission announced that over 100 companies have signed the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Pact, committing to voluntary pledges to promote trustworthy and safe AI development ahead of the AI Act's full application. The signatories include multinational corporations and European …

On 8 October 2024, the Council has removed Antigua and Barbuda from the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, reducing the list to 11 jurisdictions: American Samoa, Anguilla, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Russia, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, the US Virgin Islands, and …