What we have already done - update: June 2022 – 7th-9th research month
- two on-line meetings of the Entire Research Team on 6th Mai 2022 (presentation of extended confiscation regulations in Spain & discussion in English) and on 22nd June 2022 (Research Coordinator No. 1 presented results of her analysis of country reports and international documents referring to confiscation in order to create a definition of extended confiscation, examine legal framework on extended confiscation created by international legal provisions & recommendations; Junior Researcher No. 1 presented results of her analysis of country reports in order to identify the main problems on non-conviction-based-confiscation; discussion / English),
- three on-line meetings of Research Coordinators and Junior Researchers: 25th April, 23rd Mai & 14th June 2022 to discuss current research tasks (Polish),
- collecting updated country reports including answers on Research Coordinators’ additional questions referring to concrete problems on the principles of law (the Entire Research Team, English),
- collecting statistic data on extended confiscation applied by Polish courts in 2021 (Junior Researcher No. 2 / Polish)
- identifying new relevant issues in the research field: (1.) confiscation of assets of Russian and Belarusian citizens from the EU boycott lists, placed in Member States of the European Union – among others on an example of confiscation of the apartments of Duma’s representative in Munich by German authorities in June 2022; (2.) proposal for new Directive of the European Parliament and the Council on asset recovery and confiscation published by the European Commission on https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52022PC0245, on 05.2022 (English).
What we have already done. Updated: March 2022 – 4th-6th research month
- an on-line meeting of the Entire Research Team on 4th March 2022: presentation of extended confiscation regulations in Finland and Austria, discussion (English),
- two on-line meetings of Research Coordinators and Junior Researchers (31st January & 7th March 2022) to discuss details of the research tasks (Polish),
- analysed the submitted country reports in order to verify their compliance with research questionnaire (Research Coordinators, English),
- analysed the submitted country reports and literature in order to verify which legal orders and how regulate the non-conviction-based confiscation (Junior Researcher, English / Polish),
- pre-examined the requirements to regulate (extended) confiscation in European conventions and international recommendations (Junior Researcher & Research Coordinator, English),
- elaborated and submitted a book chapter on Criminalization of possession of assets from undisclosed sources - existing in French criminal law & regarded as a possible alternative to extended confiscation (Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach; Polish)
- collected most (10 of 13) of the country reports (English).
What we have already done. Updated: December 2021 – 3rd research month
- two on-line meetings of the Entire Research Team:
- on 29th October 2021: presentation of extended confiscation regulations in Italy and Germany, discussion (English),
- on 17th December 2021: presentation of extended confiscation regulations in Croatia and Poland, discussion (English).
- three on-line meetings of Research Coordinators and Junior Researchers (11th October, 22nd November 2021, 20th December 2021) to discuss criteria for analysing country reports (Polish).
- presenting paper on ‘Forfeiture of economic benefits obtained before committing a prohibited act (retroactive confiscation) - selected issues’ by E. Hryniewicz-Lach on an on-line conference ‘Counteracting and combating organized crime, recidivism and professional crime’, organised 18-19th November 2021 by the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economic of University in Wrocław, Poland (Polish, conference papers will be published in 2022).
- collected part of the country reports (English).
