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This news item continues the overview of recent rule-of-law developments in Poland (as far as they relate to European law) since the last update in eucrim 3/2022, 168-169.

On 19 December 2022, the Commission proposed new rules that will update and further harmonise the EU's legal framework on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings.

At the summit of 15 December 2022, the European Council endorsed the decision to grant the status of EU candidate country to Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, before accession negotiations can formally be launched, Bosnia and Herzegovina still has to implement further reforms. This mainly …

The European Parliament gave green light for EU Member States to ratify the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime. The Council can now adopt the act enabling Member States to act jointly in the interest of the EU and ratify the CoE treaty.

In November 2022, the European Parliament and the Council reached a provisional political agreement on the future EU legislation on obtaining e-evidence across the bloc, while civil society organisations urged the co-legislators to substantially improve the protection of fundamental rights.

On 22 December 2022, the Commission presented new figures on the training of judicial professionals on EU law in 2021. They show an upward trend for the training of some groups of legal professionals (e.g. lawyers) while others (e.g. judges) have not reached the level of pre-pandemic years.

According to AG Sánchez-Bordona, a serious heath risk to a person subject to surrender by means of a European Arrest Warrant may justify a postponement of surrender, but not a refusal to execute the EAW with no further justification. The executing authority is obliged to communicate with the issuing authority.

On 22 December 2022, the CJEU clarified its case-law on the extradition of Union citizens to a third state for the purpose of enforcing a custodial sentence. The case follows up to the CJEU's 2018 judgement in Raugevicius.

On 29 November 2022, the Czech Council Presidency and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the proposal for a Directive on information exchange between law enforcement authorities of Member States.

On 9 December 2022, Dunja Mijatović, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, published a report on the state of human rights in the UK. The report is based on her visit to the UK from 27 June to 1 July 2022. …