3013/2025/WEB 'Emerging threats and recent trends in illicit tobacco production and e-cigarette trade'

The aim of this webinar is to increase awareness on the intelligence picture of the illicit production of cigarettes and illicit trade in e-cigarettes and e-liquids by presenting emerging threats and recent trends, as well as good detection and investigation practices to combat them.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to: 

• explain the intelligence picture in the EU on the illicit production of cigarettes and the illicit trade in e-cigarettes and e-liquids;
• list emerging threats and recent trends of illicit production of cigarettes and of illicit trade in e-cigarettes and e-liquids;
• describe good techniques and practices of real time detection and investigation of illegal production of cigarettes;
• recognise challenges of illicit cigarette production detections and investigations.
   

EMPACT training activity

Combatting new forms of organised crime requires more cooperation between police and gendarmes, customs officers, border guards, judges, and prosecutors. EU institutions, agencies and Member States work together to tackle organised and serious international crime through a permanent and key instrument: the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT).

CEPOL plays a crucial role in the EMPACT mechanism through the provision of specialised training and the identification of training needs within each common security threat. Every year, CEPOL provides a comprehensive training package for each common EU crime priority consisting of onsite, online and exchange training activities.

Check more of CEPOL's EMPACT training activities here.