crime. The event provided an opportunity to strengthen coordination activities in this sector. On 19 December, in co-operation with the OCEEA and the Presence in Albania, TNTD/SPMU organized the OSCE Preparatory Meeting on the “Intelligence picture of environmental crime: Hazardous waste management and trafficking in South-Eastern Europe” in Tirana. In total, 19 representatives from FOs in the region, OCEEA, EMPACT France and Slovakia, incoming Albanian OSCE Chairmanship, participated in the event. This meeting contributed to facilitating the exchange of information among the OSCE executive structures and EMPACT member states, as well as strengthen programme co-ordination. TNTD/ SPMU and OCEEA agreed to jointly organize a ToT course in March 2020 on hazardous waste management and trafficking, dedicated to criminal justice practitioners in the region. Financial investigation, Anti-Money Laundering and Seizures of Criminal Proceeds From 12 to 14 February, TNTD/SPMU supported the organization of the “Balkan Asset Management Inter-Agency Network (BAMIN) Steering Group Meeting” in Podgorica to improve criminal asset seizure, recovery and social re-use in the SEE region. During the event, participants discussed respective national legislation, and the implementation of Asset Recovery Offices/Asset Management Offices. From 29 to 31 October, TNTD/SPMU facilitated the BAMIN Annual General Meeting in Neum, BiH. The meeting formed part of a cross dimensional OSCE initiative for addressing transnational organized crime in the SEE region through strengthened regional co-operation in asset seizure, confiscation, management and re-use. The meeting also aimed at providing a platform for BAMIN jurisdictions to present and discuss the challenges they face in managing criminal assets and to exchange potential solutions. From 16 to 18 December, in co-operation with the Mission to Serbia, TNTD/SPMU organized a workshop in Belgrade for 15 law enforcement representatives from Albania, BiH, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia on promoting cooperation and mutual legal assistance requests in organized crime cases among countries of the region, particularly in regard to the recovery of criminal assets. Trainers provided insights into the international financial investigation landscape, presenting international co-operation networks and mechanisms. They also highlighted the importance of non-conviction-based confiscation, explaining also how to best utilize a pre-mutual legal assistance request. 22 Counter-Terrorism & P/C VERLT From 4 to 6 March, TNTD/SPMU participated in meetings in Tirana with representatives of the Presence in Albania, Albanian State Police (ASP) and international organizations in Tirana active in supporting the law enforcement agencies. The aim was to make final preparations for the upcoming training course on “Preventing and Countering Terrorism and VERLT: A Community Policing Approach”, which took place on 1 to 3 April as a joint activity between ODIHR and TNTD/SPMU/ATU in co-operation with the US International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP). This pilot training course aims at testing the revised training material already developed jointly by TNTD/SPMU/ATU and ODIHR, and to identify additional issues that require amendment. The course also aims at raising gender awareness of all participants, which consisted of 21 community policing heads and eight civil society organization (CSO) representatives. On 9 May, TNTD/SPMU participated in a capacity-building workshop in Stockholm for a group of instructors during the International Police Officers Course by delivering a presentation on “Preventing Terrorism and Countering VERLT: A Community-Policing Approach”. The presentation aimed to introduce the topic to the instructors as well as explore the possibility of incorporating this in future courses. In total, 14 Swedish instructors and two facilitators participated in the event. On 27 and 28 June, TNTD/SPMU organized a training workshop in Tashkent on “Human Rights in CounterTerrorism Investigations”. Oriented towards law enforcement officers, this module was developed by ODIHR Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism Programme (HRAT) and TNTD/SPMU based on the OSCE-ODIHR Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations Manual. Focusing on human rights issues that may arise during a counterterrorism investigation, the manual provides guidance on how human rights can help officers to become more effective and how measures that are not complying with human rights standards are counterproductive. On 5 December, TNTD/SPMU and INTERPOL organized a side event on “Border Security and Counter-Terrorism” on the margins of the 2019 OSCE MC in Bratislava. The State Secretary of Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Special Representative of the Slovak 2019 OSCE Chairmanship and SGs of both organizations opened the event attended by 40 participants. Senior representatives of INTERPOL and TNTD highlighted the existing co-operation between both organizations, underlining their complementarity in identifying and implementing regional activities.