Eurojust offers national authorities coordination meetings and coordination centres as crucial tools to achieving successful prosecutions and ensuring justice is done.

In cross-border crime cases, Eurojust facilitates coordination meetings to bring together the judicial and law enforcement authorities of the involved countries to agree on their cooperation and the coordination of investigations and prosecutions at the national level. Information is shared and agreements are made on how to resolve legal and practical issues, what actions to take and which measures to apply. Coordination meetings are held at Eurojust’s premises or via secure videoconferencing, and are fully supported by Eurojust’s expertise and infrastructure.

The number of coordination meetings facilitated by Eurojust each year has increased steadily over the past 5 years, with a total of 640 coordination meetings organised in 2024. Swindling and fraud accounted for the highest number of coordination meetings (152), followed by money laundering (138), cybercrime (121) and drug trafficking (110). The number of coordination meetings organised in relation to intellectual property crime cases more than doubled in 2024 compared to the previous year. There was also a significant increase in the number of coordination meetings organised in the areas of terrorism (45%), cybercrime and organised crime (30%), and swindling and fraud (20%).

Coordination centres enable real-time monitoring of joint action days targeting criminal organisations, during which arrests, searches, interviews of suspects and witnesses, seizures of evidence and freezing of assets are executed in several countries simultaneously. The centres are set up in dedicated rooms equipped with state-of-the-art technology and/or virtually via videoconferencing facilities to ensure swift judicial coordination and the exchange of information and evidence between all involved national authorities in a secure environment.

A total of 32 coordination centres were set up at Eurojust in 2024, representing the highest number ever since the tool’s creation in 2011. In 2024, more than half of the coordination centres facilitated by Eurojust tackled economic crime. Drug trafficking was the next most common crime type for which coordination centres were organised, followed by cybercrime, organised crime and migrant smuggling.