Action against economic crime
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Project "Support to Prosecutor's Network in South-Eastern Europe" (PROSECO): Activities in 2010 High-level Round Table meeting “Combating Corruption in South-Eastern Europe: Contemporary Challenges” (17 June 2010, Belgrade) [28 May 2010, Strasbourg] This meeting is organised at the special request of the Republic Public Prosecutor of Serbia: the need to combat corruption has been recognised as one of the main political priorities in the country.
The event will gather several chief
prosecutors from different countries
of South-Eastern Europe along with
senior prosecutors and senior
representatives of the law
enforcement of Serbia. The purpose
of the meeting is to look at
corruption as a global challenge
requiring a global response, in
particular through the prism of the
work of prosecutors Regional Thematic Conference on Witness Protection (8-9 June 2010, Montenegro)
This event concludes the series of
four regional thematic trainings
organised for all project areas and
dedicated to key issues relevant to
the regional and international
co-operation of prosecutors dealing
with organised crime and other types
of serious crime. Internship for prosecutors in Germany (31 May – 4 June 2010, Berlin, Hanover and Celle) [28 May 2010, Strasbourg] This internship is organised in co-operation with the Federal Ministry of Justice of Germany and the Prosecutor’s Offices of Hanover and Celle (Lower Saxony). During this one-week internship a group of 21 prosecutors from all project areas will have an opportunity to get acquainted with the set-up of prosecution services in Germany dealing with serious and organised crime, as well as with the practice of international co-operation in criminal matters in this country.
This is the third (and last) in the
series of three internships for
prosecutors from Western Balkans
organised within the framework of
the project. Round Table on the legal framework and best practices of organised crime control (26 May 2010, Skopje) [20 May 2010, Strasbourg] This meeting is organised in co-operation with the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and the Academy for Training of Judges and Public Prosecutors. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and clarify the definitions of 'organised crime', 'organised criminal group' (its distinction from complicity) on the basis of international criminal law, to get a comparative review of the meaning of these terms in the law of different countries, to discuss the implication of these phenomena for the work of prosecutors and judges, the importance of these notions for the international co-operation between judges and prosecutors. Participants will be judges and prosecutors of all levels. 4th Project Steering Committee Meeting (27 April 2010, Tirana, Albania) [22 April 2010, Strasbourg] The objectives of the meeting are: to review the process of project implementation to date, revise and update the work plan and review the needs of the project areas not met by the current project (with the view to setting up a follow-up project). It is expected that the meeting will adopt the final work plan of activities until the end of the project (16 July 2010) and agree on measures required to ensure that the objectives are met.
Project Contact Persons from the 7
project areas, representatives of
the Council of Europe,
representative of the European
Commission, representative of the
Ministry of Justice of Italy are
taking part in the activity. 9th Enlarged Meeting of Prosecutors’ Network: Conference on the Future of the Network (26 April 2010, Tirana, Albania) [22 April 2010, Strasbourg] The aim of this Conference is to identify new axes for the future development of the Network, to examine ways to strengthen cooperation with EUROJUST, the European Judicial Network (EJN) and SEEPAG, to reinforce the role of the Network in the International Law Enforcement Cooperation Units (ILECUs).
In addition, it
should seek to reveal its unused
potential, propose sustainable
solutions to be explored and
identify and discuss possible new
tasks for the Prosecutors’ Network.
It is expected that participants of
the Conference will adopt
Conclusions indicating possible
directions for the future
development of the Network as well
as the areas where further
international technical assistance
is required. Representatives of the
project areas as well as other
regional and European networking
initiatives (such SEEPAG, RCC, EJN,
EUROJUST) are participating in the
conference. Training workshop on International co-operation in investigating and prosecuting organized crime and other forms of serious crime: international legal instruments (13-14 April 2010, Tirana, Albania)
[12
April 2010,
Strasbourg]
The Council of Europe is organising
in co-operation with the Ministry of Justice of Albania
a training workshop on the practical application of
international legal instruments related to the
extradition and recognition of foreign judgments in
criminal matters. The target audience of the activity
includes representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the
General Prosecutor’s Office, courts, the Judicial
Police, the School of Magistrates and the Advocacy
Office of Albania. 8th Meeting of Prosecutors' Network (25 January 2010, Rome)
[20
January 2010,
Strasbourg]
The 8th Meeting of the
Prosecutors' Network of Western Balkans will be
dedicated to the matter
of exchanging data on
criminal proceedings. In
fact, the Convention on
Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and its Additional
Protocols clearly provide for the exchange of such data
between ministries of justice. However, it appears that
this information is not shared with prosecutor’s
offices. The meeting will therefore discuss examples of
good practice from European countries, the various
approaches in the project areas to this complex issue
and possible ways of closing the existing gaps.
Participants of this meeting will be: national contact
points of Prosecutors’ Network and project contact
persons from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,
Montenegro, Serbia, "the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia" and Kosovo*, representatives of the European
Commission and the Council of Europe.
Signature of the amended Memorandum of Understanding (25 January 2010, Rome)
Meeting of Prosecutors' Network and of SEEPAG Contact Points (16 January 2009, Strasbourg)
[12 January 2009,
Strasbourg]
Within the project PROSECO Contact Persons and SEEPAG
Contact Point took place with the aim to assess the
existing prosecutorial co-operation networks, scope of
their competences, legal frameworks for their
co-operation, to update lists and contact details of
contact points and to discuss about possible ways to
streamline activities with the aim of increasing the
effectiveness. Steering Committee Meeting (15 January 2009, Strasbourg)
[12 January 2009,
Strasbourg]
The second meeting of the project "Support to
Prosecutors' Network in South Eastern Europe" gathered project's contact persons from the General
Prosecutor's Offices and Ministries of Justice from
seven project areas, representatives from the project's
implementation partner the Ministry of Justice of Italy
and the Council of Europe. The purpose of the meeting was
to assess the project's achievements in first eight
months of its implementation, to update the workplan and
define current priorities of the counterpart
institutions.
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[20
January 2010,
Strasbourg]