26 – 27 October 2021
The 14th CrimEx regular session is organised from The Hague, Netherlands, via videoconference on Zoom Pro online platform due to the ongoing restrictions related to Covid 19.
Objectives
CrimEx 14th regular sessions will address:
- Agreement on the conclusions of CrimEx 13 meeting(14 – 15 September 2021)
- Discussions on:
- EMJNet set up – Contact points appointment; draft organisation rules, activities and meetings;
- Update of EMJ tools and development of the 6 new tools – developments and current status;
- Training component – Information regarding the status of implementation;
- TAF (Technical assistance facility) – current status and proposals;
- 3rd PG Forum (Prosecutors General Forum) – topics, strategic and policy documents, analyse of statistical data, sustainability;
Programme
Tuesday 26 October 2021 – First Day
09.00
Online connection, participants calling in
Chair: Representative of Lebanon
Vice-chair: Representative of Italy
09.30
Opening and Welcome
- CrimEx to agree on the 14th CrimEx Agenda and on the conclusions of the 13th CrimEx.
09.40
Overview EMJ Tools (updating existing ones and develop new tools)
- EuroMed Justice Team will present the current status (Questionnaires, replies received, short- term experts’ contributions etc.)
- Interventions by participants
10.00
Develop 6 new tools
Presentations by STEs representing the working groups for the development of the new tools of the current status regarding the development of these tools:
- Cross-Mediterranean legal and gap analysis on the transfer of e-evidence in criminal matters (Mrs.Miriam Bahamonde Blanco, Prosecutor, Adviser of the Directorate General for International Legal Cooperation and Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, Spain)
– Questions and inputs by participants - Protection of personal data in judicial cooperation between SPCs and EUMSs (Pierluigi Perri, Professor, Lawyer, Aggr. Prof. of “Information security, privacy and protection of sensitive data”, Coordinator of the Advanced Course in Data protection and data governance, Milan University, Italy);
– Questions and inputs by participants - Joint investigations, parallel investigations and spontaneous exchange of information between SPCs and EU MSs criminal justice authorities (Maarten Noordzij, Senior Public Prosecutor, Public Prosecution Service, Netherlands/ Romulus Ungureanu, PhD, International Law Enforcement Advisor)
– Questions and inputs by participants
11.00
Coffee Break
11.30
Developing new tools
Presentations by STEs representing the working groups for the development of the new tools of the current status regarding the development of these tools:
- Procedural rights of defendants and victims (Prof. Dr. Krisztina Karsai, Head of the Department, Professor at University of Szeged, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Institute of Criminal Sciences and Ahmed Bakri, Judge, Abu Dhabi Commercial Court );
– Questions and inputs by participants - Confiscation of proceeds of crime and assets recovery (David Mattan, Senior Asset Recovery Specialist/ United Kingdom and Israel)
– Questions and inputs by participants - Guidelines for Bilateral Agreement(s) on judicial cooperation in criminal matters between SPCs and EU MS (Rasmus H. Wandall, PhD, Attorney, Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, U of Lund, Denmark/ Professor Mohamed E. Badar, LLB, LLM, PhD, FHEA – Chair of Comparative and International Criminal Law & Islamic Law, Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
– Questions and inputs by participants
12.30
Lunch Break
13.30
Update of the tools (part 1)
- EuroMed Justice Team to present the status, updated methodology and timeline
- Questions and contributions by participants
14.00
Training component
- EuroMed Justice Team to present the status;
- SAFE – ELO presentation;
- Questions and contributions by participants.
15.00
Coffee Break
15.15
Overview of the key issues regarding EMJNet and the organisation of the 3rd Forum of the Prosecutors General
- EuroMed Justice Team to introduce the topics and the proposed programme;
- Questions and contributions by participants;
16.30
End of the first day
Wednesday 27 October 2021 – Second Day
09.15
Online connection, participants calling in
Chair: Representative of Jordan
Vice-chair: Representative of Portugal
09.30
Opening of the second day
09.40
EMJ Net establishment
- SPCs appointment of contact points; ATT and Cyber envisaged
- EU MS – EJN Secretariat and the CrimEx members who are EJN CP
- EuroMed Justice Team to introduce the draft rules of EMJNet organisation
- Agreement on the follow up
- CrimEx on line participation to Eurojust Meeting on Migrants Smuggling (4 – 5 November 2021)
11.00
Coffee Break
11.15
Organisation of the 3rd Forum of the Prosecutors General
EuroMed Justice Team to introduce the two draft strategies to be discussed by CrimEx and endorsed by the 3rd Forum of Prosecutors General:
- Countering the trafficking in human beings and smuggling of migrants within the Mediterranean region.
- Confiscation of proceeds of crime and assets recovery
12.30
Lunch Break
13.30
Organisation of the 3rd Forum of the Prosecutors General
- Continue the discussions on the two draft strategies
15.00
Coffee Break
15.15
Technical assistance facility (TAF) – discussions on the status of implementation and planning
- EuroMed Justice Team to present the current status of implementation
16.30
