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On 13 February 2024, Eurojust published a factsheet explaining the ways in which the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC-OTP) may be involved in Joint Investigation Teams (JITs). The flyer explains the steps to be taken to formally include the Office …

After a month-long operation, law enforcement officers from 10 countries, together with agents from Europol and Eurojust, compromised and took control of LockBit's primary platform and other crucial infrastructure belonging to the cybercriminal group's ransomware operation. The work of the international taskforce "Operation Cronos …

A new regulation on the digitalisation of cross-border judicial cooperation and access to justice and of an accompanying directive will facilitate electronic communication in the context of cross-border judicial cooperation procedures in civil, commercial and criminal matters. It comes in the context of the e-Justice Strategy for the years 2024 to 2028 that aims at speeding up the digitalisation process and the use of digital services in the justice area.

On 7 December 2023, the General Secretariat of the Council published its assessment on the follow-up to the Conference on the Future of Europe, which concluded on 9 May 2022 (→ eucrim 2/2022, 84-85). It provided an updated assessment on the follow-up, specifically the …

On 15 January 2024, the Commission published its review of 11 existing adequacy decisions. The Commission's report marks the first assessment of the functioning of adequacy decisions for eleven countries and territories (Andorra, Argentina, Canada for commercial operators, Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Israel, …

In its judgments of 5 December 2023 in Case C-683/21 (Nacionalinis visuomenės sveikatos centras) and Case C-807/21 (Deutsche Wohnen), the ECJ clarified several aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regarding administrative fines for data protection infringements. It follows that …

On 4 December 2023, the Commission published the 2023 annual report on the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. It gives an overview of the relevant legal EU framework in place by describing recent developments (2020-2023) and presents both achievements and challenges in the EU Member States.

This article introduces the main legal instruments at the EU level to protect the EU’s financial interests with a special focus on the budget for cohesion measures. It features the Regulation on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (Conditionality …

This article is linked with the article by Iwona Jaskolska that introduced the new instruments protecting the cohesion budget against rule-of-law breaches (→ related link). It outlines the practical implementation of the two complementary but independent legal procedures: the Conditionality Regulation and the horizontal enabling …