international presenter team composed of national experts, as well as representatives from international and regional organizations. On 16 April, TNTD/ATU participated in the Steering Committee within the EU-UNODC initiative on “Strengthening the Legal Regime against Foreign Terrorist Fighters” in Vienna, which underscored the importance of adapting technical assistance delivery to situational changes. The meeting, also attended by Europol, INTERPOL and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, provided an opportunity for TNTD/ATU to highlight its activities in the area of counter-terrorism and border security management with regard to the return of FTFs. A multi-agency team of experts working on the Financial Disruption of Terrorist Networks Exercise. Kazakhstan, June 2018. (OSCE/TNTD – Action against Terrorism Unit) and the EAG, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan; - From 4 to 8 October, TNTD/ATU contributed to a joint workshop organized by the EAG, the Anti-Terrorist Center of the Commonwealth of Independent States (ATC CIS) and INTERPOL, dedicated to strengthening the cooperation between financial intelligence units (FIUs) and law enforcement agencies in the sphere of combating terrorist financing; - From 19 to 21 November, CFT training for Tajik participants was organized in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe; - On 18 and 19 December, in a first event for participants from South-Eastern Europe, Albanian trainers were introduced to the programme by TNTD/ATU and the UNODC/GPML, in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania. On 5 and 6 April and 28 and 29 June, TNTD/ATU’s staff dealing with countering the use of the internet for terrorist purposes organized a national workshop for Turkmenistan, as well as a regional event in Almaty, jointly with respective OSCE field operations. Participants were mainly prosecutors, judges, investigators and law enforcement officers, but also parliamentarians and Ombuds institution representatives. Discussions focused on issues related to the international legal framework on freedom of expression and on strategies for combatting violent extremist content online. Moreover, good practices in computer forensics were discussed with an 26 On 19 and 20 April, TNTD/ATU assisted the Korean MFA with the organization of the “Inter-Regional Conference on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism”. On 10 and 11 May, the 2018 OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Conference on the “Reverse Flow of Foreign Terrorist Fighters” was convened by the Italian OSCE Chairmanship in Rome. While touching on most TNTD portfolios, connections with the work on P/C VERLT and Border Security were particularly strong. Based on discussions at the conference, a perception paper was circulated by the Chairmanship, suggesting responses to the aforementioned challenge. In addition to the plenary sessions, ten side-events on the margins of the Conference covered related topics, such as ODIHR’s Guidelines for Addressing the Threats and Challenges of FTFs within a Human Rights Framework, to which TNTD/ATU contributed. On 16 and 17 May, 17 and 18 October, and 28 and 29 November, TNTD/ATU organized National Risk-Assessments and Crisis Situation Management Exercises on Non-Nuclear Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection in Sarajevo, Ashgabat and Nur-Sultan. Based on recommendations listed in the OSCE’s Good Practices Guide on Non-Nuclear Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection, representatives from government agencies working on energy infrastructure, law enforcement officials and energy companies participated in the events. The aim of the exercises was to test the effectiveness of existing protection and crisis management systems within energy companies, as well as the co-ordination with external crisis management in the case of a terror cyber-attack on industrial control systems. On 11 and 12 June, TNTD/ATU’s P/C VERLT team advised the Uzbek government on the development and