Following a conflict of competence with the Croatian Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK), European Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruța Kövesi
sent a formal letter to the European Commission on 21 November 2024 expressing concern about violations of the rule of law in Croatia. [...]
A comprehensive report released in November 2024 and commissioned by the European Commission has mapped and analyzed high-risk areas of corruption in the European Union. The
study will feed the EU strategy against corruption, which is prepared by the Commission and will set out actions to prevent and fight corruption in high risk areas. [...]
On 12 December 2024, Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 of 27 November 2024 on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937
was published in the Official Journal. The new legal framework will prohibit to place and make available on the EU market (including online sales), or to export from [...]
In a report, Europol examines how criminal networks abuse legal business structures to strengthen their power and expand their criminal operations. The report calls for a comprehensive,
multi-layered strategy in order to counter the abuse of legal business structures. [...]
On 17 December 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Opinion on certain data protection aspects related to the processing of personal data in the context
of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. [...]
