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The 2023 report on the EU enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) confirmed trends from previous years and highlighted the growing challenges posed by counterfeit goods.

In order to assist legal practitioners in preparing their requests for mutual legal assistance (MLA) to Montenegro and Serbia, the EJN has launched the EJN Fiches Belges for Montenegro and Serbia on its website. The Fiches Belges provide information on the legal systems and criminal …

On 24 October 2024, the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, and the Minister of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Davor Bunoza, signed a cooperation agreement on Eurojust to increase the efficiency of investigations and prosecutions in the fields of organised crime, …

At the end of October 2024, a joint investigation team investigating a large-scale online investment scam involving players in Germany, Serbia, and Cyprus led to the seizure of computer equipment, hard drives, mobile phones, and digital data as well as the arrest of a suspect …

At the beginning of November 2024, a long-running investigation being conducted by Italian, Belgian, French, and Spanish authorities, supported by Eurojust, dismantled a European forgery network that had counterfeited contemporary art, including works by famous artists such as Banksy, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, …

On 17 September 2024, Frontex and the UNCHR (the UN Refugee Agency) signed an agreement to strengthen their cooperation on border management and humanitarian protection across Europe. The agreement allows the two organisations to exchange information and expertise to promote and support effective border management. …

Europol and the International Criminal Court (ICC) signed two further legal instruments on 18 September 2024, implementing their working arrangement of 25 April 2023 (→eucrim 1/2023, 22-23). The new Liaison Officer Agreement allows the ICC to nominate a liaison officer to Europol. In …

In the first ever joint operation between Europol and the Specialised Cybercrime Centre of Ameripol (an organisation for police cooperation in the Americas, currently made up of 33 police forces in 27 countries), an international criminal network was dismantled that had been running a phishing-as-a-service …

On 4 October 2024, the Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, and the Canadian Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, Dominic Leblanc, signed a new agreement for the transfer of passenger name records (PNR) data on flights between …

On 26 September 2024, the ECJ handed down an important judgment on the extent of the protection of the confidentiality of lawyer-client communication in the cross-border exchange of information on tax matters. The ECJ ruled that the Luxembourgish legislation under which advice and representation by a lawyer in tax matters do not enjoy the strengthened protection of communications between lawyers and their clients is incompatible with Art. 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.