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At the beginning of April 2021, a large-scale operation against massive fraud with fuel taxes resulted in the arrests of 23 suspects and in the seizure of assets worth €600 million. Investigations conducted by Italian authorities in cooperation with authorities from Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Malta, …

In April 2021, Eurojust launched a new scheme for JIT funding that is applicable to urgent and/or unforeseen cross-border operational activities by Joint Investigation Teams (JITs). This funding scheme is being offered in addition to existing funding through annual calls for proposals. The “Funding without …

On 19 April 2021, Eurojust published its Report on Drug Trafficking, reviewing experiences and identifying challenges in judicial cooperation. The report is based on an analysis of 1838 drug trafficking cases that Eurojust was involved in during the period 2017-2020. Drug trafficking remains a …

At the beginning of May 2021, Ms. Daniela Buruiana was reappointed as National Member for Romania at Eurojust. Ms. Buruiana served as Senior Prosecutor at the Romanian Prosecution Service before joining Eurojust in 2014. During her first term of office, she chaired Eurojust’s Cybercrime …

In April 2021, the European Commission agreed to continue to fund the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA II) with a €1.55 million project. The decision was taken to further support the Western Balkans in the prevention and countering of all forms of radicalisation. The project will …

On 21 April 2021, government representatives from the EU Member States reappointed Mr. Eugene Regan (Ireland) as Judge of the Court of Justice and Mr. Athanasios Rantos (Greece) as Advocate-General of the Court of Justice. Mr. Dimitrios Gratsias (Greece) has also been appointed as Judge …

On 16 June 2021, the Commission initiated the procedure for adopting the adequacy decision for personal data transfers to the Republic of Korea. It will cover transfers of personal data to the Republic of Korea’s commercial operators and public authorities.

In its ruling of 15 June 2021 in Case C-645/19, the CJEU (Grand Chamber) explained the conditions for the exercise of the powers of national supervisory authorities in cross-border processing of data. The CJEU held, that, under certain conditions, a national supervisory authority may exercise its power to bring alleged infringements of the GDPR before a court of that Member State (here: Belgium) even if it is not the lead authority in relation to that processing.

This news item provides an overview of the opening or progress of several infringement procedures in the area of justice and home affairs / security law and PIF. The Commission provided an update on 9 June 2021.

This article describes the heightened risk of corruption and other criminal phenomena that accompany the financial stimulus and economic recovery measures taken by governments in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. International organisations (United Nations, OECD) and European organisations (Council of Europe, European Union) have …