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This hands-on training provided a step-by-step guidance from the web team, the EJN website consultants and the EJN Secretariat with the aim to update the Atlas, Compendium, Fiches Belges, information about the respective national system and the Contact point tools. The participants also gained more insights on the new Reporting Tool.

The EJN Fiches Belges for Montenegro and Serbia have been launched on the EJN website and could be consulted here. Aiming to support the judicial practitioners in preparation of their MLA requests to Montenegro and Serbia, the newly launched Fiches Belges provide information on the legal systems and on the criminal procedures in these countries.

On 20 November, Hugh Dockry delivered a presentation to COPEN. He spoke about the outcome of EJN’s National Correspondents’ Meeting in October, where it was agreed to extend the mandate of the Presidency Board Members and that two additional Presidency Board Members would be elected.

The 63rd Plenary Meeting of the European Judicial Network under the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, attended by 130 Contact Points, took place in Budapest from 6 to 8 November 2024.

The meeting took place in Warsaw/Poland, on 7-8 October 2024. Hosted by the National Prosecutor’s Office, the meeting was opened by Mr. Mirosław Jerzy Iwanicki, Director of the Bureau of International Cooperation.

On 26 September, the Western Balkans Criminal Justice (WBCJ) Project organised the Outreach Event for Serbia which falls under a series of similar events organised by the project in the Western Balkans.

The 16th EJN National Correspondents’ Meeting of the European Judicial Network (EJN), under the Hungarian Presidency, took place at Eurojust premises on 2 October 2024. During this meeting, the extension of the current mandate of the elected members of the EJN Presidency Board was discussed and adopted unanimously.

On the 12th of September in Skopje (North Macedonia), the EJN Secretariat organized the annual meeting dedicated to the cooperation with the Western Balkans.

From 27 to 29 August, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Office of the Supreme People’s Prosecutor of Lao PDR organised the 2024 plenary meeting of the Southeast Asia Justice Network (SEAJust) in Vientiane, Lao PDR.

From 25 to 27 June, Hugh Dockry, Head of the EJN Secretariat, attended the Annual General meeting of REDCOOP (Red de Cooperatión Penal), the network for cooperation in criminal matters of the Ibero-American Association of Prosecutors (Asociatión Ibero Americana de Minesterios Públicos), AIAMP, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In June 2024, the EJN and Eurojust issued a revised updated version of the Joint EJN-Eurojust Compilation on Issuing and Executing authorities in EAW proceedings, available on the EAW Section of the EJN website.

From June 4 to 6, 2024, the EJN Secretariat had the honour of participating in a workshop on Joint Investigation Teams (JITs) and EJN Cooperation Tools.

On 6 and 7 June 2024, the Republic of Croatia organised a Regional EJN Meeting for EJN Contact Points from neighbouring Member States and third States in Vukovar with the aim to exchange best practices and solve current problems in international cooperation in cases of transnational organised.

Under the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the 62nd Plenary Meeting of the European Judicial Network gathered approximately 125 EJN Contact Points in Antwerp from 10 to 12 June 2024.

On 30 April 2024, the CJEU delivered a new judgement in a case C-670/2022, where the accused M.N., charged with drug trafficking before the Berlin Court, argued that the German authorities unlawfully received evidence from France and that this evidence cannot be used in the criminal proceedings against him.