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On 6 May 2022, Europol together with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addictionpublished two new online modules of reports taking a detailed look at the illicit EU markets for cocaine and for methamphetamine. The reports provide broad analyses of these markets following the supply chain from production and trafficking to distribution and use.

On 16 May 2022, the European Commission presented a proposal for the recast of the EU’s financial rules applicable to its general budget, known as the “Financial Regulation”. It is proposed that improvements are made around three axes: increased transparency, better protection, and more agility.

On 6 July 2022, the European Parliament and the Council passed new legislation that establishes the category of “information alerts” for entries into the Schengen Information System (SIS). “Information alerts” target third country nationals who are suspected to be involved in terrorist offences or other serious crime (listed in Annex I of the Europol Regulation 2016/794).

On 28 June 2022, the amendments to the 2016 Europol Regulation entered into force. This news item summarises the main elements of the changes to Europol's legal framework and points out critical voices that still remain following the compromise on Europol's new tasks and mandate found by the European Parliament and the Council.

On 1 June 2022, an amendment to the Eurojust Regulation entered into force, which enables the Agency to to collect, preserve, and share evidence on war crimes.

On 28 June 2022, Margarita Šniutytė-Daugėlienė, National Member for Lithuania, was elected Vice-President of the College of Eurojust. Prior to joining Eurojust as National Member for Lithuania in 2019, Ms Šniutytė-Daugėlienė had served as Chief Public Prosecutor of the 2nd Criminal Prosecution Division at …

The main motivation for this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on cyber forensics and threat investigations for emerging infrastructures to disseminate current research issues and advances.

Die Tagung diskutiert neue Entwicklungen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Digitalisierung und Kriminologie, erörtert sich stellende Herausforderungen und stellt erfolgreiche Ansätze vor.

On 1 June 2022, the EPPO presented updated figures on its operations since the official operational start one year ago. The body also pointed out to tangible improvements and current key challenges. Laura Kövesi, the European Chief Prosecutor proposed the creation of an elite corps of fraud investigators who could work transnationally within the EPPO.

After having assumed its operational tasks in June 2021, the EPPO recently reported on the first convictions in EPPO cases in several EU countries. This news item gives an overview of these verdicts.