What we have already done: updated: September 2024 – 34th-36th research month

  • 2 online meetings of the Entire Research Team: on 4.07 on which discussed were the project findings (which will appear in the project monography) and on 19.09 on which the project was summarized (discussion, English),
  • Portuguese country report was published on the project website (English),
  • PI (Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach) published the article on Improving asset confiscation: in the quest for effective and just solutions in the journal: ERA Forum2024, Vol. 25 (2), 231–247: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12027-024-00806-8 (English),
  • PI (Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach) presented research findings (Erweiterte Einziehung und ihre Rechtfertigung im Lichte der Grundrechte und allgemeinen Grundsätze der EU-Rechts – die Zusammenfassung der Forschung) at the University of Heidelberg (the Chair meeting of Prof. Frank Meyer), Germany, 24.07.2024 (German),
  • PI (Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach) presented research findings (Extended confiscation & fundamental rights in the European Union) at the 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology Eurocrim2024, Bucharest, Romania, 13.09.2024 (English).

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What we have already done: updated: June 2024 – 31st-33rd research month

  • one on-line meeting of the Entire Research Team: on 16th May 2024, where discussed were: the structure of the monography Extended Confiscation of Illicit Assets and the Criminal Law: National and EU Perspectives, the current state of research, as well as the conclusions and recommendations in the project (English).
  • two on-line meetings of the Research Coordinators and Junior Researchers: on 12th April and 17th May 2024, where discussed were the current issues in the project (Polish).
  • Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach on 9th May 2024 took part as a panellist in the seminar: European Arrest Warrant (EAW), European Investigation Order (EIO) and freezing and confiscation orders (Reg 1805/2018) - challenges of the EU law transposition, organized by the Digital Justice Center at the University of Wrocław, Poland, within the FACILEX Project (co-funded by European Commission), where she presented the issue of the Execution of Freezing and Confiscation Orders as challenges for the EU Member States (Polish).
  • Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach on 21st June 2024 took part in the 2nd Symposium “Legal Prospects for Europe” at the Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, with a paper: Extended confiscation in the EU – selected problems (and solutions in 16 EU Member States) (English).
  • Katarzyna Holik on 21st June 2024 took part in the seminar Criminal Law Under the ECHR at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (organized in cooperation with the Universität Passau, Germany) with a paper: Presumption of innocence in the procedure of applying the non-conviction-based confiscation in the light of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (English).

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What we have already done: updated: March 2024 – 28th-30th research month

  • 2 online meetings of the Entire Research Team: 26.01 on which current project outcomes and project tasks for 2024 were discussed and 21.03 on which the recommendations relating to the scope and application of extended confiscation have been initially developed (discussion, English),
  • Luxembourg country report was published on the project website (English),
  • publication of PI (Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach) on Practical Application of the EU Criminal Law in Poland – with Particular Reference to Extended Confiscation, appeared in: T. Gřivna (ed.), Criminal Law in the European Union. Balance and Perspective of EU Criminal Law and its Application in the Member States, Praha 2023 (English);
  • PI (Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach) presented research outcomes in a paper titled Erweiterter Verfall/Einziehung im Kontext von EU-Recht (einschließlich EU-Grundrechten) at the 248th meeting of the Criminal Law Committee of the German Federal Bar Association ( Tagung des Strafrechtsausschusses der Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer - BRAK), 23.02.2024, Berlin (German).

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What we have already done: updated: September 2023 – 25nd-27th research month

  • one 2-days meeting (workshop) of the Entire Research Team at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, on 2nd-3rd November 2023, where the results of 2 research years in the project were presented to the entire research team and invited external experts: Prof. Johan Boucht from Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Prof. Martin Heger from Humboldt University in Berlin, Prof. Holger Matt from the European CriminalBar Associationand Prof. Frank Meyer from the University in Heidelberg (discussion, English),
  • two meetings of the research coordinators and junior researchers on 13th October and 14th November 2023 (discussion on the preparing and the results of the workshop in Poznań)
  • 3 publications of PI (Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach) appeared:
  • PI took part in:
    • Workshop on hard cases in implementation of the Regulation (EU) 2018/1805, RECOVER (JUST-2022-JCOO (EU) / Project 101091375 co-funded by the Justice Program of the EU 2021-2027), Milan 29.11.2023 (English)
    • Seminar: Dissemination of the 1st year’s results of the RECOVER project on “Mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders between efficiency and the rule of law”- Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 (JUST-2022-JCOO (EU)/ Project 101091375 co-funded by the Justice Program of the European Union 2021-2027), Milan 29.11.2023 (English)

Photos by Katarzyna Holik (Meeting of the Entire Research Team, 2nd-3rd November 2023, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)

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What we have already done: updated: September 2023 – 22nd-24th research month

  • the library query conducted by Principal Investigator (Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach) in the Max Planck Institute for Crime, Security and Justice in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) in order to update the literature on European criminal law and extended confiscation in the EU,
  • one on-line meeting of the Entire Research Team on 22nd September 2023 (Principal Investigator presented results of her library query in Max Planck Institute for Crime, Security and Law and their contribution to the current research results; discussion, English),
  • collecting country reports 15 out of 16 country reports are ready, we received the country report from Luxemburg, prepared by Charlotte Quaisser (the Entire Research Team, English),
  • planning the November in-person meeting of the researchers with invited experts at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (the Entire Research Team, English).

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What we have already done: updated: June 2023 – 19th-21st research month

  • two on-line meetings of the Entire Research Team: first on 12th May 2023, where Sandra Oliveira e Silva presented her article: Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 on the mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders: A headlong rush into Europe-wide harmonisation? published in the New Journal of European Criminal Law. Second meeting of the ERT was on 30th June 2023 and included presentation of current research results by Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach (English),
  • Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach took part in German-Polish-Austrian Seminar on Comparative Law: „Strafrechtliche Sanktionen in der EU“ [Criminal sanctions in the EU], which took place on 31.05-2.06.2023 in Frankfurt/Oder. At the seminar she presented a paper on Möglichkeiten strafrechtlicher Vermögensabschöpfung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rechtsnatur
    in Polen     [Possibilities of confiscation of assets under criminal law with special consideration of its legal nature in Poland] (German),
  • The Entire Research Team was reinforced by Sandra Oliveira e Silva, Professor of the University of Porto in Portugal, who will prepare Portuguese country report on extended confiscation. We await also another country report from Luxembourg.

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