Activities Related to Threats Posed by Criminal Activity Organized Crime On 19 July, TNTD/SPMU participated in and delivered a joint presentation with the OCEEA in the “Environmental Crime Experts Meeting within the European Multidisciplinary Platform against Criminal Threats (EMPACT)”. The meeting, held in Vienna, was hosted by the Embassy of France, which is leading this project on behalf of the EU member states. The EU-funded Environmental Crime EMPACT Project aims to address environmental crime in a multi-disciplinary way and connect EU countries, regional and international organizations to effectively counter this crime phenomenon together. The meeting gathered some 30 co-operation partners from six EU Member States (Austria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia), UNODC, INTERPOL, the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime, the European Commission and Europol. Participants discussed co-ordination and possible means of future collaboration. On 10 and 11 October, TNTD/SPMU participated, together with the OCEEA, in the “EMPACT Environmental Crime Operational Activities Plan (OAP) 2019 Meeting” organized at Europol Headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. The meeting was convened by France, which acts as the “driver” of EnviCrime OAP 2019, and the Europol Support Team. The goals of the meeting were to visit the state of play of programme development during its first year of implementation, to evaluate challenges and obstacles met in 2018, and to draft the operational activities for 2019. Twenty-five out of 28 EU MS and two non-EU MS (Norway and Switzerland) were represented. The following regional and international organizations participated: CEPOL, the CoE, the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA), Eurojust, Europol, Frontex, INTERPOL and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OSCE (OCEEA and TNTD) decided to take part in two operational activities in 2019. On 13 December, TNTD/SPMU organized a workshop in Minsk, Belarus on “Proactive and Intelligence-Led Approaches for Countering Serious and Organized Crime” in the International Training Centre of the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior (MoI) of Belarus. Thirty representatives of law enforcement agencies from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova and the Russian Federation attended the event. In addition to TNTD/SPMU, experts from Europol and the Swedish National Police gave presentations and discussed proactive, multi-agency and intelligence-led approaches in targeting transnational criminal groups that are based or 20 active in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and the Russian Federation. An expert from ODIHR presented on human rights and data protection relevant to ILP. Financial Investigations, Anti-Money Laundering and Seizures of Criminal Proceeds On 26 and 27 March 2018, TNTD/SPMU co-organized a workshop in Strasbourg, France with the FATF and the Council of Europe’s Experts Committee on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) on “Challenges and Best Practices in Investigating and Prosecuting Cases of Money Laundering, Criminal Assets Recovery and Financing of Terrorism”. A total of 120 prosecutors and judges took part in the workshop. TNTD/SPMU gave opening remarks and moderated one of the workshop’s sessions, during which participants identified, compared and discussed case studies, as well as legislative and investigative measures and good practices in investigating and prosecuting cases of money laundering. The findings and conclusions of the workshop contributed to a paper on Antimoney laundering and counter terrorist financing for judges and prosecutors, which the FATF published in June 2018. On 13 and 14 June, TNTD/SPMU organized a needs assessment workshop for South-Eastern Europe in Belgrade, Serbia in the area of asset seizure in fighting organized crime. Representatives of the relevant OSCE field operations, of the OCEEA and of the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative participated in the workshop. Its aim was to discuss the findings of a questionnaire by TNTD/SPMU to all field operations in SEE on the current activities in this area, as well as to map the existing initiatives and identify needs and gaps in the region. The outcomes of the workshop are being used to develop future OSCE assistance in the area of fighting organized crime in SEE, to provide guidance to field operations, and to co-ordinate with other international organizations. Counter-Terrorism & P/C VERLT On 14 and 15 May, TNTD/SPMU, jointly with TNTD/ATU, ODIHR and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized a pilot training course on “Preventing Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Leads to Terrorism: A Community-Policing Approach”. The material used for the training is based on the joint TNTD/ODIHR Guidebook of the same title. The pilot training was attended by 16 community policing officers and five police managers from the Sarajevo police and six civil society representatives working with the Sarajevo police. Two external consultants, one community policing expert and one human rights expert delivered the pilot training course.