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EncroChat's path to Europe's highest courts

Auf einen Blick 16-12-2022

After infiltrating an encrypted phone network widely used by criminals (EncroChat), law enforcement authorities in Europe made headlines with high-profile arrests and seizures. Across Europe, defendants are now challenging evidence and convictions, claiming flawed investigations, violations of cross-border evidence-sharing rules and insufficient disclosure of evidence. They argue that authorities violated their rights to a fair trial, effective remedy and privacy. This paper provides background on ...

The workshop explored the different ways to tackle environmental criminality in developing countries. Bringing together a wide range of international experts as well as local representatives from developing countries, the workshop sought to identify existing gaps in policy and legal responses, and generate debates about how the identified gaps can be filled. The first panel focused on the prevention and the fight against environmental crimes in developing countries. In doing so, it drew on lessons ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced millions of people to flee the country or move to safety within Ukraine's borders, resulting in one of the largest European humanitarian crises in recent times. The chaos generated by the conflict has exponentially increased the risk of human trafficking and exploitation, especially of the most vulnerable persons.

Stärkung des Mandats von Europol

Auf einen Blick 27-04-2022

Im Dezember 2020 schlug die Kommission eine Änderung der Europol-Verordnung vor, um die Zusammenarbeit der Agentur mit privaten Akteuren zu verbessern, ihre Rolle bei Forschung und Innovation im Bereich der Strafverfolgung zu stärken und rechtliche Lücken bei der Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten zu schließen. Auf der Mai-I-Plenartagung soll das Europäische Parlament über die vorläufige Vereinbarung, die aus den interinstitutionellen Verhandlungen hervorgegangen ist, abstimmen.

Serious and organised crime inflict huge costs on both the EU economy and society. Organised crime is an increasingly dynamic and complex phenomenon, as it has become more interconnected, transnational and digital. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an increase in cybercrime, fraud and counterfeiting. Police and judicial actions and the effective implementation of existing EU instruments are critical in tackling this challenge. New strategies to disrupt the business models and structures of criminal ...

On 1 May 2021, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) entered into force, having been provisionally applied since 1 January 2021. One of the areas covered by the TCA, in its Part Three, is security cooperation between EU and UK law enforcement and judicial authorities in criminal matters. The 13 titles under Part Three contain extensive provisions aimed at enabling the continuation of information exchange, including personal data, between ...

Mit dieser Studie, die von der Fachabteilung Bürgerrechte und konstitutionelle Angelegenheiten des Europäischen Parlaments auf Ersuchen des LIBE-Ausschusses in Auftrag gegeben wurde, sollen Hintergrundinformationen über den derzeitigen Rechtsrahmen von Europol und eine rechtliche Bewertung des Vorschlags der Kommission vom 9. Dezember 2020 zur Stärkung des Mandats von Europol, gegliedert nach Themenblöcken, bereitgestellt werden. Die rechtliche Bewertung geht mit politischen Empfehlungen einher.

Gewalt gegen Frauen stellt eine Verletzung der Menschenrechte und eine Form der Diskriminierung aufgrund des Geschlechts dar. Sie wurzelt in Ungleichheiten zwischen Frauen und Männern und nimmt vielerlei Formen an. Die Schätzungen zum Ausmaß des Problems sind alarmierend. Diese Gewalt hat erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die Opfer und ist mit hohen gesellschaftlichen Kosten verbunden. Die von den Vereinten Nationen und dem Europarat eingeführten Instrumente, einschließlich der Istanbul-Konvention des ...

This in-depth analysis has been commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee in the context of the workshop to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. It looks into the implementation of the 1980 Convention, as regards the respect of autonomy of parts, validity of agreements and mediation, and describes, from a practitioner’s point of ...

Evolving from informal police cooperation in the 1970s to a fully fledged European Union (EU) agency with a strengthened mandate under its new legal basis (Regulation (EU) 2016/794), Europol's mandate is to strengthen EU Member States' competent authorities and ensure their cooperation for the purpose of 'preventing and combating serious crime affecting two or more Member States, terrorism and forms of crime which affect a common interest covered by a Union policy'. The agency is therefore empowered ...