EuCLR European Criminal Law Review

On 21 December 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter: ECJ) ruled on the question referred by the Oberlandesgericht Wien (Higher Regional Court, Vienna, Austria) concerning the interpretation of Art. 31 para. 3 of Council...

The European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on combating corruption would entail a massive expansion of criminal liability that would go well beyond the traditional concept of corruption. The proposal would make numerous non-binding UNCAC...

The protection of the truthfulness and transparency of corporate information is a classic pillar of the economic criminal law. Criminal provisions aimed at punishing false accounting and other false corporate communications have been present for a...

The introduction of Directive 2017/1371, also known as the “PIF Directive”, represents a significant outcome of the European Union’s efforts to harmonise criminal laws across Member States, aimed at enhancing the fight against financial fraud...

An offence committed by artificial intelligence seems like an oxymoron, at least in a legal system in which criminal offence is literally an expression of the personality of a human being. However, reality knocks on the door of the criminalist,...