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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.

On 4 October 2024, the ECJ ruled on the Dutch law which refuses to deduct tax on interests paid for reasons of abusive tax practices. The ECJ found that the Dutch concept is compatible with EU law if the interest paid is not at arm's length.

Since 30 September 2024, the revised Financial Regulation applies. It lays down the principles and procedures governing the establishment, implementation and control of the EU budget. The revision aligns the rules with the multiannual financial framework 2021-2027.

On 4 October 2024, the EU and Norway signed an Agreement amending the 2018 Agreement between the parties on administrative cooperation, combating fraud and recovery of claims in the field of value added tax. For the negotiations of this amending agreement →eucrim 2/2022, 108 …