What we have already done: updated: March 2023 – 16th-18th research month

  • two on-line meetings of the Entire Research Team: first on 11th January 2023, where Anna Sakellaraki presented her article: EU Asset Recovery and Confiscation Regime – Quo Vadis? A First Assessment of the Commission’s Proposal to Further Harmonise the EU Asset Recovery and Confiscation Laws. A Step in the Right Direction? published in the New Journal of European Criminal Law. The presentation was followed by a fruitful discussion on the 2022 Commission Proposal for a Directive on asset recovery and confiscation; Anna’s article is available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20322844221139577; Commission Proposal - at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52022PC0245. Second meeting of the ERT was on 24th March 2023 and included presentation of two other international project in the field of asset confiscation: the RECOVER Project presented by Anna Maria Maugeri and the FORCE presented by Andrea Cabiale as well as the introduction into the problems related to the Regulation 2018/1805 of 14.11.2018 on the mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders by Anna Maria Maugeri (English),
  • three on-line meeting of Research Coordinators and Junior Researchers: on 17th January 2023, 21st February 2023 and 14th March 2023, to discuss current research tasks (Polish),
  • all 14 country reports have been published on the project website,
  • we started to plan the non-online meeting in Poznań in November 2023, where members of the Entire Research Team will discuss first common results of the research conducted within the project with invited experts.