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On 9 February 2023, the EJN launched its improved, more user-friendly e-tools Atlas, Fiches Belges, and Compendium. The tools are tailored to assist practitioners in drafting and sending requests for mutual legal assistance. They are publicly available on the EJN website without prior authorisation for use.

In order to assist with requests for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters to the UK under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the EJN now offers a form that can be downloaded from its website. The form, which can be used on a voluntary basis, …

At the beginning of March 2023, Ms Piret Paukštys took up her five-year mandate at Eurojust as new National Member for Estonia. Prior to joining the EU's Agency for criminal justice cooperation, Ms Paukštys worked as state prosecutor in the Estonian Office of the Prosecutor …

1 March 2023 marked the beginning of the mandate of Eurojust’s new Administrative Director, Mr Evert van Walsum. For the next four years, Mr van Walsum, a Dutch national with long-standing experience in managerial positions for national and European financial regulators, will be …

On 14 February 2023, the Council adopted a decision authorising Member States to ratify, in the interest of the EU, the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention). The protocol will improve cross-border access to electronic evidence to be used in criminal proceedings. On 17 January 2023, the EP already gave its consent as required by the TFEU.

A new Tech Watch Flash report by Europol's Innovation Lab provides key findings of workshops which explored how criminals can abuse ChatGPT, and how it may assist investigators in their daily work.

On 14 February 2023, the Council of the EU approved an Agreement between the European Union and New Zealand on the exchange of personal data between the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement (Europol) and the authorities in New Zealand competent for fighting serious crime and terrorism.

On 28 February 2023, Frontex published its annual report for 2022. Given that the Agency faced a series of internal turbulences in 2022, the report gives account on several changes in Frontex governance.

In the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the General Court annulled the restrictive measures applied to Ms Violetta Prigozhina, mother of Mr Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who founded the mercenary company "Wagner Group".

After its resolution of 15 December 2022, the EP endorsed further measures in February 2023 that support the overcoming of the "Qatargate" scandal. Next to short-term measures and an extended mandate of the ING2 committee, MEPs call for reforms ensuring better transparency, accountability and integrity of the EU institutions.