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Ten years after the criminal law directives on environmental crime and ship source pollution were agreed upon, the EU is now carrying out a thorough evaluation and assessment of the legal framework. On 15 November 2019, the Council tabled the draft final report on the …

5G networks will become part of the crucial infrastructure for the operation and maintenance of vital societal and economic functions and a wide range of services essential for functioning of the internal market. The EU must maintain technological sovereignty, however, and promote its approach to …

The ECOFIN Council adopted conclusions on strategic priorities on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism at its meeting on 5 December 2019 in Brussels. The conclusions are a direct response to the new – more general – strategic agenda for 2019-2024, in which …

The majority of companies (51%) is sceptical that corruption is being tackled efficiently by law enforcement. This is one of the main results of the Eurobarometer survey on the businesses’ attitude towards corruption in the EU. It was published on 9 December 2019 ( …

On 17 December 2019, MEPs backed new EU legislation that aims at curbing VAT evasion in e-commerce. The legislation (one Directive and one Regulation) will require payment service providers to keep records of cross-border payments related to e-commerce and to make these data available …

The justice ministers of the Member States were informed about the state of play of the implementation of the EPPO Regulation at the JHA Council meeting on 2-3 December 2019. The Commission regularly briefs the Council on the setting up of the new EU body. …

On 14-15 November 2019, the Finnish Customs and OLAF organised a high-level conference in Helsinki at which participants discussed current trends and appropriate responses to customs fraud. The event (entitled “Strategies to fight customs fraud in a globalised trading landscape”) brought together national customs officials …

After the European Commission announced in December 2018 that the EU achieved its goals of training legal practitioners on EU law in 2017 already – two years ahead of schedule (see eucrim 1/2019, p. 10) – the Commission confirmed that even more records were …

On 3 December 2019, the CJEU dismissed an action of the Czech Republic that sought the annulment of Directive 2017/853 of 17 May 2017 amending Council Directive 91/477/EEC on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons. The case reference is C-482/17.In view …

On 6-7 November 2019, the Salzburg Forum met in Vienna/Austria. Austria briefed the home affairs ministers of the EU Member States at the JHA Council meeting on 2-3 December 2019 about the outcome of the meeting. The ministers for the interior at the Salzburg Forum …