68/2026/ONS: Excise fraud intelligence, detection, and operational response

The aim of this onsite activity is to enhance knowledge, skills and operational competences to detect, analyse, report and support joint operational responses against cross-border smuggling of excise goods, with a focus on novel tobacco products, alcohol and mineral oils, including the effective use of risk indicators, OSINT/AI tools, and JAD reporting mechanisms.

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.