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In mid-February 2024, the College of the EPPO sent an urgent request to the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, and the European Commission to increase the 2024 budget of the Office from €7.8 million to €79.7 million. The request was motivated by the …

On 12 March 2024, Ms Kolbrún Benediktsdóttir took up her duties as Iceland's first Liaison Prosecutor for Eurojust. Prior to accepting this position, Ms Benediktsdóttir worked as Deputy District Prosecutor in Iceland and taught at the Faculty of Law of the University of Iceland. …

On 17 January 2024, the EPPO and France's Treasury, together with its Interministerial Anti-Fraud Coordination Mission (MICAF), signed a Working Arrangement to foster the detection of fraud involving the Resilience and Recovery Facility (RRF). In France, the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan …

On 8 December 2023, in the run-up to the annual International Anti-Corruption Day, GRECO President Marin Mrčela issued a statement in which he highlighted the links between environmental crimes (e.g., illegal forestry, illegal fishery, illegal wildlife trade, illegal mining, illegal dumping, and illegal transport of …

On 10 January 2024, GRECO presented its 5th round evaluation report on Portugal. GRECO acknowledges the extensive anti-corruption legal and institutional framework developed by Portugal, made possible by transparency and anti-corruption legislative packages introduced in 2019 and 2021. These include the following:A national …

On 12 December 2023, GRECO published its 5th Round Evaluation Report on the United States. The country joined GRECO in 2000 and has already been assessed in four evaluation rounds. According to GRECO, the USA implemented 100% of recommendations in the First Evaluation Round (June …

On 19 February 2024, Frontex and the European Union Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine) signed a working agreement to strengthen their cooperation in combating cross-border crime and dealing with irregular migration at the EU’s eastern borders. The agreement is another step towards enhanced …

On 16 February 2024, Frontex presented the highlights of 2023 and the main operational achievements in the form of its digital leaflet "2023 in brief". Looking back to 2023, Frontex main achievements include the following:Employed 2500 EU border guards on average each …

In February 2024, Eurojust published an updated edition of its overview of the CJEU case law on the ne bis in idem principle in criminal matters under Art. 50 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Arts. 54 to 58 of …

On 16 November 2023, the ECJ delivered a judgment on the interpretation of the right of indirect access to personal data as foreseen in Art. 17 of Directive 2016/680 known as the Law Enforcement (Data Protection) Directive (LED).