EU Legislation
Directive (EU) 2024/1712 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims
Legal Basis: Art. 82(2) TFEU, Art. 83(1) TFEU.
Key Themes: Action to combat violence, trafficking
in human beings and migrant smuggling, judicial
cooperation in criminal matters.
Directive (EU) 2024/1203 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on the protection of the environment through criminal law and replacing Directives 2008/99/EC and 2009/123/EC
Key Themes: Law and environment, liability.
Legal Basis: Art. 83(2) TFEU.
Directive (EU) 2024/1226 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 April 2024 on the definition of criminal offences and penalties for the violation of Union restrictive measures and amending Directive (EU) 2018/1673
Legal Basis: Art. 83(1) TFEU
Key Themes: EU sanctions, effective application of
the Union’s Restrictive measures
Directive (EU) 2024/1260 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 April 2024 on asset recovery and confiscation
Legal Basis: Art. 83(2) TFEU, art. 83(1)(a1) TFEU;
Art. 82(2) TFEU, art. 87(2) TFEU.
Key Themes: Combating economic fraud and
corruption; capital outflow, money...
Regulation (EU) 2024/982 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 March 2024 on the automated search and exchange of data for police cooperation
Legal Basis: Art. 16(2) TFEU, Art. 87(2) TFEU, Art.
88(2) TFEU.
Key Themes: Police cooperation; countering
terrorism; action to combat crime; judicial
cooperation in criminal...
Regulation (EU) 2024/1358 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on the establishment of ‘Eurodac’ for the comparison of biometric data in order to effectively apply Regulations (EU) 2024/1351 and (EU) 2024/1350 and Council Directive
Legal basis: Article 78(2), Article 79(2), Article
87(2), Article 88(2) TFEU
Key themes: Common European Asylum System;
illegally staying third-country nationals; Eurodac;
law...
Directive (EU) 2024/1654 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2024 amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 as regards access by competent authorities to centralised bank account registries through interconnection system and technical measures
Legal Basis: Art. 87(2) TFEU.
Key themes: combat crimes; optimizing and
facilitating access to financial information; prevent,
detect, investigate and prosecute serious...