The need for cross-border access to electronic evidence is imperative for a vast majority of criminal investigations and proceedings nowadays. In this context, a number of public and private entities and projects have been creating resources aimed at facilitating cross-border access to electronic...

Cross-border surrogacy arrangements, where a woman agrees to bear a child and to hand it over, on birth, to another party, can lead to human trafficking and the sale of children. Organised crime groups take advantage of the unharmonised national legislation on surrogacy in the EU Member States...

The Second Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) on enhanced cooperation and disclosure of electronic evidence (Protocol) aims to enhance cooperation among the Parties, as well as between the Parties and service providers and other entities, for...

The Second Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) on enhanced cooperation and disclosure of electronic evidence (Protocol) aims to enhance cooperation among the Parties, as well as between the Parties and service providers and other entities, for...

The Second Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) on enhanced cooperation and disclosure of electronic evidence (Protocol) aims to enhance cooperation among the Parties, as well as between the Parties and service providers and other entities, for...

On a periodic basis, the Genocide Network, in its effort to raise awareness on accountability and the fight against impunity, gathers and translates judicial decisions of national jurisdictions of EU Members States regarding cases of core international crimes. The current selection of national...

This is the ninth issue of the Cybercrime Judicial Monitor (CJM), published yearly, and distributed to judicial and law enforcement authorities active in the field of combating cyber-dependent, and cyber-enabled, crimes. The CJM contains four main sections. The first section covers legislative...

A terrorist attack, planned to take place in France on 1 July 2018, was prevented through the actions of the Belgian authorities and their partners in Germany, France and Luxembourg. Based on information from their security services, the law enforcement services arrested several suspects and...

Developed by the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security, the report stresses the balance that needs to be struck between securing private communications and fundamental rights, while enabling investigations and prosecutions to combat organised crime and terrorism. The publication gives an overview...