International cooperation

As a result, a total of 28 working arrangements are now in force between the EPPO and its international partners.

In parallel, the EPPO engaged in institutional-level discussions with judicial authorities from, inter alia, Armenia, Australia, Canada, Chile, Hungary, Ireland, Moldova, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the USA, reflecting the growing global dimension of its mandate.

Throughout the year, the EPPO organised and participated in operational meetings and expert-level exchanges with delegations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Monaco, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Uruguay.

These exchanges facilitated the sharing of expertise and best practices, helping to tackle operational challenges in complex cross-border investigations, with a strong focus on organised crime and asset recovery.

As an observer or member, the EPPO actively contributed to the work of key international networks, notably through participation in the plenary meetings of:

• The European Partners Against Corruption (EPAC) and the European Contact-Point Network Against Corruption (EACN)
• Global Operational Network of Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement Authorities (GlobE Network)
• OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions (WGB), law enforcement officials (LEO), Global Network of Law Enforcement Practitioners against Transnational Bribery (GLEN) and Taskforce on Tax and Crime (TFTC)
• The Network of Public Prosecutors or equivalent institutions at the Supreme Judicial Courts of the Member States of the European Union (NADAL Network)
• The Egmont Group
• The Committee of Experts on the Operation of the European Conventions on Co-operation in Criminal Matters (PC-OC)
• The Camden Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network (CARIN), Annual General Meeting and Steering Committee
• The European Judicial Network (EJN)
• European Judicial Focus Group on Asset recovery and Money-laundering and European judicial network on organised crime

In addition, the EPPO participated in several major international conferences dedicated to financial crime, corruption and asset recovery, organised in particular by the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors (AIAMP), the Intra-European Organisation Of Tax Administrations (IOTA), the Law Enforcement Network of the Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN LEN), the Ministry of Justice of the United Arab Emirates (‘Conference on the Role of Central Authorities in Asset Recovery’), the Middle East and North Africa Regional Asset Recovery Network (MENA-ARIN), the OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum and the Southeast European Prosecutors Advisory Group (SEEPAG).