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On 15 June 2023, GRECO published its annual report for 2022. It provides insight into the most important findings of the fourth and fifth evaluation rounds and gives selected good practice examples.

On 30 November 2023, the Commission proposed extending the interim regulation, allowing providers to voluntarily detect and report child sexual abuse on certain communication services. The regulation, which expires on 3 August 2024, provides a temporary legal basis until new EU rules are in place. …

On 18 October 2023, the Commission adopted a new EU Roadmap to fight drug trafficking and organised crime. It sets out 17 actions in four key areas, including prevention, dismantling of criminal networks, cooperation with international partners and better resilience of logistics hubs.

Until 30 September 2023, the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) was published daily and contained several documents that were published together on the respective day. On 1 October 2023, the OJ switched to a new act-by-act publication mode: each act is now …

On the eve of the International Anti-Corruption Day, the European Commission affirmed the EU's commitment to fight corruption in particular also at the global level.

Following the Conference on the Future of Europe and in the context of unprecedented challenges and multiple crises, on 22 November 2023, the EP adopted a resolution on proposals for amendments of the EU Treaties. The EP also called on the European Council to set up a Convention in order to move forward with the reform process.

On 12 October 2023, the ECJ delivered a judgment in which it clarified the methods to asses the requirement of "same facts" under the principle ne bis in idem enshrined in Art. 54 CISA and Art. 50 CFR.

On 31 October 2023, the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) declared a provision void that allowed the reopening of criminal proceedings if new evidence comes to light with regard to very severe offences. The legal basis - Section 362 no. 5 of the German Criminal Procedure Code is incompatible with the German Constitution's double jeopardy rule.

On 9 November 2023, the ECJ decided that Union law obliges a criminal court to inform the accused person of a new envisaged legal classification of the criminal act in due time (Case C-175/22, BK). Bulgarian criminal procedure law as interpreted by the Bulgarian courts conflicts with this principle.

On 28 November 2023, the Commission presented a bundle of measures to reinforce the prevention and fight against migrant smuggling. A new Directive will replace the current legal framework on the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and stay in the EU. A new Regulation is designed to strengthen police cooperation in the fight against migrant smuggling with a central, more important role of Europol.