3014/2025/WEB 'Emerging threats - Investigation of trade related EU sanctions from an EPPO perspective'

This webinar aims to increase the awareness of law enforcement authorities and prosecutors on investigations on circumvention of EU sanctions with a focus on the role and investigating competence of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), and national authorities when EU sanctions circumventions (trade related), intrinsically linked to crimes against the financial interests of the European Union (PIF crimes), are perpetrated.

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

• Recognise potential cases and offences in investigating EU sanctions related offences, especially where EPPO has a role when intrinsically linked with offences to Traditional Own Resources (customs duties, antidumping duties, countervailing duties).
• Identify potential infringement to EU sanctions and EU rules related to embargos, sanctions, goods flow restrictions and applicable import and export control measures.
• Explain the EU framework and cooperation instruments which can be activated in the context of circumvention of EU sanctions related to trade in goods.
• Describe common modus operandi used in sanctions circumvention and identify related threats within national contexts.

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.