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 developments in the area of cybercrime, cyber-enabled crime and electronic evidence in 2023.

The judicial analysis section presents brief summaries of court rulings from various EU Member States. It also includes the ruling rendered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in April 2024 in case C-670/22 – M.N. (EncroChat), clarifying the conditions for the transmission and use of evidence in criminal cases with a cross-border dimension.

The third section covers the developments within the European Union in the past year in relation to data retention.

The last section is dedicated to ‘cooperation with crypto-asset service providers in the context of criminal investigations and prosecutions’, which was selected as this issue’s topic of interest.

All issues of the Cybercrime Judicial Monitor are available here.