Evaluations

• Author: European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (EU body or agency)
• Pages: 64-64

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VII. Evaluations

In 2015, Eurojust set up an Action Plan for the implementation of the recommendations addressed to

Eurojust in the context of the 6th round of mutual evaluation in the Member States. In 2016 and 2017,

Eurojust continued to work on the implementation of activities and projects marked as high-level

priorities and significant results were achieved which were also presented to the GENVAL Working

Group of the Council. The Action Plan was closed in 2018 as remaining recommendations had been

completed or had become established practice.

Almost in parallel, an independent external evaluation of the implementation of the 2008 Council

Decision on Eurojust and the activities carried out by Eurojust was commissioned by the College of

Eurojust in accordance with Article 41a of Council Decision 2009/426/JHA on the strengthening of

Eurojust. The evaluation was conducted by the consulting firm EY from September 2014 to June 2015.

The EY Final Report was issued on 30 June 2015. An Action Plan for the implementation of the

recommendations provided in the report was approved by the College of Eurojust at the end of 2015.

Implementing actions were put in place across the organisation during 2016 and 2017. After successful

implementation of the recommendations the Action Plan was closed in 2018.

In view of the new legal framework for Eurojust which was adopted in November 2018, entered into

force in December 2018 and will be applicable as of 12 December 2019, no further external evaluation

exercise will be initiated on the basis of the Council Decision on Eurojust. The new Regulation on

Eurojust (Regulation 2018/1727 on the European Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation) foresees

such evaluation in its Article 69, to be commissioned by the Commission by 13 December 2024.