The European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals (ECRIS-TCN) will serve as a centralised hit/no-hit system. It will provide judges, prosecutors and other relevant authorities with easy access to comprehensive information on an individual’s criminal history, regardless o...
This study assesses the implementation of the current EU fisheries control system by Member States. It focuses on the application of national infringement procedures, sanctions and the point system for serious infringements from 2014 to 2019. The research shows results based on interviews and su...
This report is part of the activity of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) around the development and improvement of drug supply indicators, which are designed to reflect developments in drug markets as well as the markets’ wider harms and impact (EMCDDA, 2017). ...
The European Criminal Records Information System – Third Country Nationals (ECRIS-TCN), to be developed by eu- LISA, will be a centralised hit/no-hit system to supplement the existing EU criminal records database (ECRIS) on non-EU nationals convicted in the European Union. Once operational, it w...
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee, aims to update the 2016 study “Fit for purpose? The Facilitation Directive and the criminalisation of humanitarian assistance to irregular...
In der Europäischen Union sind verschiedene Institutionen, Agenturen und andere Einrichtungen an der Vorbeugung und dem Kampf gegen Betrug zulasten des EU-Haushalts beteiligt. Diese EU-Behörden und die Maßnahmen, die sie durchführen – einschließlich Politikgestaltung, Überwachung sowie operative...
Across the EU every year, 9 million people face criminal proceedings. EU rules set common rights and minimum standards for all criminal proceedings, whether you are accused or suspected in your home country or elsewhere in the EU....
Drugs can act as facilitators for all types of violence, including drug-related homicide (DRH). Addressing this phenomenon is of importance not only given the severity of a homicide event and its high costs to society, but also because DRH has the potential to act as a valuable indicator of wide...
The present handbook represents the first comprehensive overview of conceptual and practical issues related the compilation of statistics on illegal economic activities (IEAs) in national accounts (NA) and balance of payments (BOP). Estimating the extent or the value of IEAs is clearly problemat...
