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At the end of November 2020, José de la Mata Amaya took up position as new National Member for Spain at Eurojust. Before joining Eurojust, Mr de la Mata Amaya served as judge of the Central Investigative Court No 5 of the Spanish National Court. …

On 19 November 2020, the European Commission issued a Recommendation for a Council Decision to authorise the opening of negotiations for Agreements between the EU and ten third States, in order to foster judicial cooperation with Eurojust. The States include Algeria, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, …

On 20 November 2020, the heads of the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Agencies met virtually to exchange ideas on Artificial Intelligence and digital capacity building as well as training tools and innovative learning. As a next step, the JHA agencies agreed to draw …

At the end of November 2020, Hungarian authorities, supported by law enforcement authorities from Austria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and by Eurojust, dismantled an Organised Crime Group (OCG) involving large-scale VAT fraud. The OCG had been operating a multi-level company network …

On 1 December 2020 − for the first time since the Eurojust Regulation became applicable in December 2019 −, Members of the European Parliament and national parliaments of the EU Member States convened (in a virtual meeting) to evaluate the Eurojust’s activities. In order to …

On 1 December 2020, Eurojust, Europol, and the European Judicial Network (EJN) published the SIRIUS EU Digital Evidence Situation Report 2020. It provides an analysis of the access EU Member States currently have to electronic evidence held by online service providers (OSPs) as well …

On 8 December 2002, Eurojust published a Note on Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 on the mutual recognition of freezing orders and confiscation orders. It applies since 19 December 2020 and replaces Framework Decisions 2003/577/JHA on freezing property and evidence and 2006/783/JHA on confiscation orders (→ …

On 9 December 2020, Eurojust published its 2019 Report on Counter-Terrorism presenting the Agency’s activities in the area of counter-terrorism in the year 2019. The report gives an overview of Eurojust’s casework on counter-terrorism and presents the main concepts/principles of the newly developed European Judicial …

On 23 December 2020, Eurojust and Europol signed a contribution agreement to expand their cooperation under the SIRIUS project. The SIRIUS project, which Europol launched in 2017, aims to support Internet-based investigations by co-developing tools and solutions for EU law enforcement and judicial authorities (→ …

On 19 November 2020, Europol, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), and Trend Micro (an IT company providing cybersecurity solutions) published a joint report on “Malicious Uses and Abuses of Artificial Intelligence (AI)”. Looking at the present state and possible …