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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 …

Dear Readers, Recital 5 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget serves as a reminder that the EU’s legal structure is based on the fundamental premise that “each Member State shares with all the other Member States, and recognizes that they share with it, a set of common values on which the Union is founded, as stated in Article 2 TEU.” This commitment to complying with the Treaties, including the fundamental principles of the rule of law, justifies mutual trust between the Member States. Each and every Member State…

The first preliminary ruling request concerning the EPPO Regulation prompted the European Court of Justice to interpret the provisions of Article 31 regarding cross-border investigations. In its judgment of 21 December 2023, the Court largely, but not fully, followed the considerations and the proposed response …

On 17 January 2024, Commission Recommendation (EU) 2024/268 on cooperation between the Member States with regard to serious threats to internal security and public policy in the area without internal border controls was published in the Official Journal (2024/268). The recommendation advocates for a collaborative …