This symposium considers the institutional foundation for the EU’s criminal policy, a highly topical and critical issue for the future development of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (‘AFSJ’). In the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty there has been a striking development of EU criminal justice agencies, transforming the prospects for transnational criminal enforcement within the EU. Those agencies now partly operate inside the traditional ‘Community‘ decision-making structure, including a greater resort to qualified majority voting in the Council and enhanced powers for the Commission, European Parliament and Court of Justice.

In order to exploit the synergies of collaborative multi-disciplinary research on EU criminal justice, this symposium brings together prominent EU legal scholars, criminal law scholars, criminologists and political scientists to jointly reflect on the developments since the Lisbon Treaty with reference to transnational criminal enforcement by EU criminal justice agencies.

For more information, please visit the conference website of the network.

This symposium considers the institutional foundation for the EU’s criminal policy, a highly topical and critical issue for the future development of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (‘AFSJ’). In the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty there has been a striking development of EU criminal justice agencies, transforming the prospects for transnational criminal enforcement within the EU. Those agencies now partly operate inside the traditional ‘Community‘ decision-making structure, including a greater resort to qualified majority voting in the Council and enhanced powers for the Commission, European Parliament and Court of Justice.

In order to exploit the synergies of collaborative multi-disciplinary research on EU criminal justice, this symposium brings together prominent EU legal scholars, criminal law scholars, criminologists and political scientists to jointly reflect on the developments since the Lisbon Treaty with reference to transnational criminal enforcement by EU criminal justice agencies.

For more information, please visit the conference website of the network.

Objective

This conference will give practitioners insight into recent developments in EU, international and national supervision and enforcement measures against money laundering in the financial sector.

Key topics

• Regulatory developments in anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML/CFT)
• Overview of roles and functions of supervisory bodies in the EU’s AML/CFT regime
• Role of EBA in AML/CFT supervision in the EU
• Country review update on EU AML/CFT supervision
• Enforcement measures
• Public-private partnership to combat financial crime

Who should attend?

Anti-money laundering and compliance officers, FinTech lawyers, government officials, professionals in the gambling and payment services sectors and other stakeholders working in the financial services sector.

For details on the programme, registration and participation fees, see the conference website.

The International Association of Criminal Law/AIDP holds its quinquennial Congress in Rome.

The main topic is “Criminal Justice and Corporate Business”.

Subjects will be:

• Individual Liability for Business Involvement in International Crimes
• Prosecuting Corporations for Violations of International Law: Jurisdictional Issues
• Prevention, Investigation, and Sanctioning of Economic Crime
• Food Regulation and Criminal Justice
• Combatting corruption in international business
• Financial markets: regulatory and criminal enforcement
• Global standards for business criminal law and judicial practice
• Corporate criminal liability
• Corporate Criminal Law and Environmental Protection
• New technologies as means for and tools against crime
• The Curse of Riches: Extracting Nature’s Wealth, Contrasting Claims & Rights and Criminal Law
• Digital Evidence and Investigating Business Crime
• Moving towards international and supranational business criminal justice or Business criminal justice beyond nation state

Objective:

The seminar will provide legal practitioners with an update on the case law developed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with relevance for criminal law and criminal procedure. It will focus primarily, but not exclusively, on developments in 2018 and 2019.

Key topics

• Obligation to conduct an effective investigation
• Evidence gathering and evidence obtained through special investigation techniques
• Key issues for the prosecution
• Lawfulness of arrests and deprivation of liberty
• Obligations on police and penitentiary authorities regarding persons in custody
• Key issues in the field of detention
• Fairness of a hearing, equality of arms and privilege against self-incrimination
• Rights of the defence and assistance to be provided to the accused
• Status of a victim under the ECHR
• Submitting a case to the Strasbourg Court

Who should attend?

Lawyers in private practice, judges, prosecutors, prison authorities, police and government officials.

More details about the programme, fees and discounts are available at the seminar website.