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On 27/05/2019, the CJEU’s Grand Chamber delivered its judgments in Case C-509/18 (PF) and Joined Cases C-508/18 (O.G.) & C-82/19 PPU (P.I.). In these cases, the CJEU was asked to clarify whether a Public Prosecutor’s Office may be regarded as a ‘judicial authority’ within the meaning of Article 6(1) EAW FD and whether it is as such entitled to issue a EAW.

On 20 March 2019 the Tool Correspondents of the European Judicial Network gathered for the 18th Tool Correspondents Meeting in The Hague to discuss various aspects of the EJN website.

On 20 February 2019, the 40th Regular meeting of the European Judicial Network (EJN) took place in The Hague, under the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

The 16th edition of the Summer School “The EU Area of Criminal Justice” will take place in Brussels from 1 – 5 July 2019.

For its 15th Annual Conference, which will take place in Brussels on April 25 and 26, 2019, the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN) has decided to focus on Brexit and its consequences for the EU area of criminal justice.

The Research Institute for Transparency, Corruption and Financial Crime, Faculty of Law - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (http://anti-corruption.law.auth.gr/ ), hosts an intensive 8-day summer school on current developments in the fields of financial crime, corruption and money laundering at a national, European and international level, for participants who wish to advance their knowledge in this field.

Information Exchange and Data Protection in the Area of Law Enforcement

“Outcome report of the Eurojust meeting on the European investigation order (19-20 September 2018)”

The ECLAN Newsletter aims at keeping you at pace with developments in the field of European Criminal law. It is divided into five sections: 1) Legislation, 2) Case law, 3) Academic Activities

The focus of the report is on: “The European Public Prosecutor’s Office – From the Drawing Board to Implementation”

Eurojust Case Law by the Court of Justice of the European Union on the European Arrest Warrant

The EU is introducing new rules to improve the way member states exchange information on convictions of third country nationals. Council and Parliament negotiators today agreed on a reformed European criminal records information system ,ECRIS, that will now include a centralised database with information on convictions of third country nationals and stateless persons ,so-called ECRIS-TCN. This provisional political agreement will now have to be confirmed by the two institutions.

The meeting gathered around 120 participants: local authorities from Austria, EJN Contact Points from the EU Member States, candidate, associated and third countries, as well as representatives from Eurojust, the European Commission, the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU and EJN partners.

On 17th October 2018, the 10th National Correspondents Meeting of the European Judicial Network (EJN) took place in The Hague under the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The Council today adopted a regulation on the mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders. The aim of the new rules is to ensure the effective freezing and confiscation of criminal assets across the EU. This will help make the EU more secure by tackling the financing of criminal activities, including acts of terrorism.

The Portuguese National meeting of the European Judicial Network that took place in Aveiro on 7th – 8th May 2018 was attended by 38 participants with the presence of Magistrates from Spain, the Portuguese EJN Contact Points, the members of the national Portuguese network, members of the Portuguese desk at Eurojust, and a representative of the EJN Secretariat.