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On 12 April, the 5th meeting between the EJN Contact Points, EU Member States and the Western Balkans (WB), co-organised by the IPA2019 project, was organised in Budva, Montenegro.

The EJN Secretariat presented the new look of the redesigned Atlas, Fiches Belges and Compendium -the main e-tools of the EJN website- as well as the roadmap of the projects planned for implementation in 2023 and the related IT security and data protection requirements.

The training consisted of the combined classes on theoretical and practical use of the English language in the area of judicial cooperation. The central topic of the training was trafficking of the human beings and application of the European Investigation Order.

The forms for the Mutual legal assistance applicable for cooperation with the United Kingdom under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement have been uploaded to the Judicial Library on the EJN website in MS Word document format in all EU languages.

On 16 February 2023 the 44th Regular Meeting of the EJN took place at Eurojust under the Swedish Presidency. The event gathered 60 participants from the EU Member States, as well as from Albania, Kosovo, Moldova, North Macedonia, Norway, Ukraine, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey.

On Thursday, 9 February 2023, the renewed e-tools – Atlas, Fiches Belges and Compendium – were launched on the EJN website. These tools are tailored to assist practitioners in drafting and sending requests for legal assistance.

The focus of the meeting was on the dramatic events in Ukraine and on investigations into the crimes against international law committed there. The participants discussed how to coordinate investigation of the international crimes more effectively.

The 59th Plenary Meeting, which took place on 9-11 November 2022 in Prague with the participation of approximately 120 EJN Contact Points, was dedicated mainly to cross border surveillance and special investigative measures.

On 25 October 2022, the 12th Edition of the National Meeting of the EJN Contact Points took place at the headquarters of the National Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw.

On the 29th of September 2022, the 14th National Correspondents meeting of the European Judicial Network took place in The Hague under the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the German EJN-contact points (and 10th Annual Berlin Regional EJN-Meeting) in Berlin on September 13, 2022 dealt with the problems about the extending authorisation of extradition in the different Member States.

On 2nd and 3rd June 2022 EJN Regional meeting took place, in Riga, Latvia, organised by the Latvian contact points of the EJN. To the meeting participated EJN contact points from Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and Sweden, National contact points from Latvia, more than 10 regional judges, 2 representatives from the General Prosecutor Office and 2 State police.

On 31 March 2022, the 21st Tool Correspondents meeting of the European Judicial Network (EJN), under the French Presidency of the EJN, took place in The Hague, preceded by an on-the-spot training for newly appointed Tool Correspondents on 30 March 2022.

On the 24th of February, the EJN met in the context of the 43rd EJN Regular meeting under the French Presidency of the Council of the EU. The meeting was organized in a hybrid format and gathered approximately 50 participants from EU Member States, Candidate Countries and EJN Associate countries.