This third report on the EU digital evidence situation is timely and highly relevant in a time of rapid digitalisation. Digitalisation has an impact on virtually all criminal activities and security threats we encounter in the EU. Similarly, law enforcement and judicial authorities must increasingly...

Facilitating judicial cooperation in criminal matters is the core task of the EJN. In accordance with the legal basis of the EJN, Council Decision 2008/976/JHA on the European Judicial Network1 (EJN Decision), the Contact Points’ role is to facilitate the execution of requests for judicial...

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) interpreted in its case-law the notion of ‘issuing judicial authority’ under Article 6(1) of the Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant and the surrender procedures between the Member States (EAW FD). In 2019, the CJEU clarified in several...

In its 2016 Petruhhin judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) introduced specific obligations for Member States that do not extradite their own nationals and receive an extradition request for the prosecution of an EU citizen who is a national of another Member State and has...

In a context of expanding digitalization of everyday life, electronic data also has an increasingly important role in a wide range of criminal areas. However, when it comes to cross-border data disclosure requests from authorities towards foreign-based Online Service Providers (OSPs), the existing...

The aim of this report, which is complementary to previously published documents by Eurojust (and the European Judicial Network (EJN)), is to inform both practitioners and policymakers of the main difficulties encountered in the practical application of the European Investigation Order (EIO) on the...