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By decision 042/2022 of 28 September 2022, the EPPO College established an asset recovery and money laundering advisory board (ARMLAB). It is a central body within the EPPO, building up expertise as well as facilitating and streamlining EPPO’s strategic objectives in the fields of asset recovery and money laundering.

On 18 August 2022, the EPPO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Financial Intelligence Unit of Luxembourg (CRF, Cellule de renseignement financier). The MoU will provide a structured framework for cooperation between the Parties.

In September 2022, the European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kövesi signed two Working Arrangements that will establish facilitated cooperation with the Prosecution Services of Montenegro and Georgia.

On 3 October 2022, the UK-US data access agreement (DAA) entered into force. It obliges each party to ensure their laws permit a telecommunications operator to lawfully respond to direct requests for covered data made by a relevant public authority in the other party’s jurisdiction. It is the first executive agreement concluded by the US government with a foreign country under the US Cloud Act. It can be used instead of government-to-government MLA requests.

On 15 September 2022, the Commission proposed a new Cyber Resilience Act. It aims to offer consumers and businesses better protection from products with inadequate security features by introducing mandatory cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements throughout their entire lifecycle.

The Commission's proposal to prevent and combat child sexual abuse online remains controversial. While more than 70 child rights organisations support the EU’s proposed law to protect children from sexual abuse in an open letter, the European Data Protection Board and the European Data Protection Supervisor pointed out the serious risk the proposal presents for fundamental rights in their Joint Opinion of 28 July 2022.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), operational since 1 June 2021, has not just been established to bring the perpetrators of EU fraud to justice but also to help recover the criminal profits they have acquired in the process. Thus, its raison d’être not only …

In an opinion on the Commission's proposal on asset recovery and confiscation from May 2022, the EDPS welcomed the commitments to data protection, but stressed that further efforts are needed to achieve compliance with the EU's data protection legislation.

On 13 July 2022, the Commission presented its third EU-wide Report on the Rule of Law. the Commission recognized that Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine and its people constituted a direct challenge to EU values and the rule-based world order. It includes an overview of the trends in the EU as a whole and 27 country chapters looking at developments in every Member State since July 2021.