3092/2025/WEB 'Trade secret crime: strategies for law enforcement'

This webinar aims to enhance participants' understanding of trade secret protection, investigation, and prosecution within national and international legal frameworks.

The webinar is implemented in cooperation with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

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

• Explain the concept of trade secrets and their legal protection under international and national laws.
• Identify effective organisational and technological measures for safeguarding trade secrets.
• Understand jurisdictional considerations and investigative procedures in trade secret theft cases.
• Recognise the role of international judicial cooperation and key institutions such as Eurojust in cross-border trade secret enforcement.

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.