The European Labour Authority (ELA): the odd one out? Investigative and enforcement powers of ELA, benchmarked against EPPO, Frontex, AMLA, Europol and Eurojust – IRCP research 58
As the European Labour Authority (ELA) reaches its five-year mark, the question arises as to whether its investigative and enforcement powers suffice to effectively address problems of a cross-border nature and to adequately support the Member States. In view of a possible revision of its mandate, this book benchmarks ELA against a selection of other EU enforcement agencies, i.e. EPPO, Frontex, AMLA, Europol and Eurojust. What are the similarities and differences?
Compared with the operations-related and information-related capabilities of the latter, ELA’s current ability to support Member States in combating fraud and abuse in a cross border context proves to be fairly limited, not to say almost non-existent. Clearly, ELA’s potential is underused. The book formulates some proposals to strengthen the mandate of ELA, granting it a more active role.
Yves Jorens is senior full professor, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent university, promotor of the SIOD Chair ‘Reducing Social Fraud and Social dumping’.
Roel Van den Bossche is academic assistant, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent university.
Wannes Bellaert is PhD researcher and academic assistant, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent university.
Gert Vermeulen is senior full professor of European and international criminal law and data protection law, and director of the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University
The European Labour Authority (ELA): the odd one out? Investigative and enforcement powers of ELA, benchmarked against EPPO, Frontex, AMLA, Europol and Eurojust – IRCP research 58
As the European Labour Authority (ELA) reaches its five-year mark, the question arises as to whether its investigative and enforcement powers suffice to effectively address problems of a cross-border nature and to adequately support the Member States. In view of a possible revision of its mandate, this book benchmarks ELA against a selection of other EU enforcement agencies, i.e. EPPO, Frontex, AMLA, Europol and Eurojust. What are the similarities and differences?
Compared with the operations-related and information-related capabilities of the latter, ELA’s current ability to support Member States in combating fraud and abuse in a cross border context proves to be fairly limited, not to say almost non-existent. Clearly, ELA’s potential is underused. The book formulates some proposals to strengthen the mandate of ELA, granting it a more active role.
Yves Jorens is senior full professor, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent university, promotor of the SIOD Chair ‘Reducing Social Fraud and Social dumping’.
Roel Van den Bossche is academic assistant, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent university.
Wannes Bellaert is PhD researcher and academic assistant, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent university.
Gert Vermeulen is senior full professor of European and international criminal law and data protection law, and director of the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University
Wetboek Strafrecht – 43ste, herziene uitgave / bijgewerkt tot 1 augustus 2022
Een uitgebreid herwerkt alfabetisch trefwoordenregister maakt het geheel bovendien erg gebruiksvriendelijk.
Alle teksten zijn bijgewerkt tot 1 augustus 2022.
Gert Vermeulen is gewoon hoogleraar (internationaal en Europees) strafrecht aan de Universiteit Gent en directeur van het Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP) en van het Knowledge and Research Platform Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement and Surveillance (PIXLES). Hij voert internationaal relevant wetenschappelijk onderzoek op het brede terrein van het strafrechtelijk beleid.
Wetboek Strafrecht – 43ste, herziene uitgave / bijgewerkt tot 1 augustus 2022
Een uitgebreid herwerkt alfabetisch trefwoordenregister maakt het geheel bovendien erg gebruiksvriendelijk.
Alle teksten zijn bijgewerkt tot 1 augustus 2022.
Gert Vermeulen is gewoon hoogleraar (internationaal en Europees) strafrecht aan de Universiteit Gent en directeur van het Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP) en van het Knowledge and Research Platform Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement and Surveillance (PIXLES). Hij voert internationaal relevant wetenschappelijk onderzoek op het brede terrein van het strafrechtelijk beleid.
RIDP 2021.2 – EU criminal policy: advances and challenges
No time for stand-still, though. Since 2020, the European Commission has launched a tsunami of new legislative proposals, including in the sphere of EU criminal law, strongly framed in its new EU Security Union Strategy.
This special issue on ‘EU criminal policy. Advances and challenges’ discusses and assesses some of the newest developments, both in an overarching fashion and in focused papers, relating to key 2022 novelties for Europol (ie the competence to conduct AI-based pre-analysis in (big) data sets, and extended cooperation with private parties), the sensitive debate since 2020 on criminalising (LGBTIQ) hate speech and hate crime at EU level, the 2022 Cybersecurity Directive, the potential of the 2020 Conditionality Regulation to address rule of law issues undermining the trustworthiness of Member States when issuing European Arrest Warrants, and concerns about free speech limitation by the 2021 Terrorist Content Online Regulation.
Gert Vermeulen is Senior Full Professor of European and international Criminal Law and Data Protection Law, Director of the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), of the Knowledge and Research Platform on Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement and Surveillance (PIXLES) and of the Smart Solutions for Secure Societies (i4S) business development center, all at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also General Director Publications of the AIDP and Editor-in-Chief of the RIDP.
Wannes Bellaert is PhD Researcher and Academic Assistant at the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University.
RIDP 2021.2 – EU criminal policy: advances and challenges
No time for stand-still, though. Since 2020, the European Commission has launched a tsunami of new legislative proposals, including in the sphere of EU criminal law, strongly framed in its new EU Security Union Strategy.
This special issue on ‘EU criminal policy. Advances and challenges’ discusses and assesses some of the newest developments, both in an overarching fashion and in focused papers, relating to key 2022 novelties for Europol (ie the competence to conduct AI-based pre-analysis in (big) data sets, and extended cooperation with private parties), the sensitive debate since 2020 on criminalising (LGBTIQ) hate speech and hate crime at EU level, the 2022 Cybersecurity Directive, the potential of the 2020 Conditionality Regulation to address rule of law issues undermining the trustworthiness of Member States when issuing European Arrest Warrants, and concerns about free speech limitation by the 2021 Terrorist Content Online Regulation.
Gert Vermeulen is Senior Full Professor of European and international Criminal Law and Data Protection Law, Director of the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), of the Knowledge and Research Platform on Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement and Surveillance (PIXLES) and of the Smart Solutions for Secure Societies (i4S) business development center, all at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also General Director Publications of the AIDP and Editor-in-Chief of the RIDP.
Wannes Bellaert is PhD Researcher and Academic Assistant at the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University.