methods, techniques, approaches and experience of securing coherence and consistency of judicial application of fair trial guarantees in criminal procedures. On 5 November in Simferopol, 12 November in Lviv and 26 November in Kyiv, the PCU in co-operation with the Supreme Court of Ukraine and National School of Judges organized three regional seminars for the judicature, law enforcement and legal professionals with a focus on the approaches, methodologies and procedures of implementing fair trial guarantees and practical aspects of enforcing the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. The events, attended by more than 100 judges and legal professionals, focused on such issues as coherence and consistency of fair trial guarantees application in the criminal procedure, the role of the Supreme Court in safeguarding such coherence, and ways and means to overcome systemic problems in this sphere. On 19-20 September, the PCU supported an International Conference on “2012 - Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine: Procedural and Substantial Aspects” in Lviv, organized jointly by the PCU, the Supreme Court of Ukraine and Lviv State University of Interior. The conference gathered 100 participants from Moldova, Poland, Russia and Ukraine and focused on theoretical and practical problems of criminal substantive and procedural law as well as the ways and means to improve the criminal legislation in conformity with European standards. Discussions of both, scholars and practitioners, were devoted to the newly-adopted Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, addressing experiences of its application and the search for the means and ways of its further development. Counter-Terrorism In 2013, in close co-operation with the TNTD’s ATU and SPMU, the PCU supported Ukraine’s national policies to strengthen national security and foster international cooperation in the sphere of combating terrorism. On 24 May and 14 June, two regional information seminars on the “OSCE Role in the European Security Architecture” were held in Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk. The seminars aimed at raising awareness among senior officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on activities and opportunities offered by the OSCE in the field of international security cooperation. The information seminars, attended by 60 SBU senior officers, were conducted by PCU staff with relevant expertise. Participants discussed the three OSCE dimensions as key components of European security, the history of the development of the idea of a security space from Vancouver to Vladivostok, OSCE commitments in the human dimension, including commitments related to freedom of mass media and law enforcement agencies as well as the PCU elections-related activities, and activities in the field of fighting trafficking in human beings. In order to enhance international co-operation and to facilitate direct contacts and liaisons between the SBU and the OSCE security structures, on 20 June the PCU organized a high level visit of the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine to the OSCE Secretariat. During this visit, meetings and consultations on effective response to transnational organized crime challenges were held with the OSCE Secretary General and the management of the TNTD. The visit provided an opportunity to identify the most efficient and effective ways of international security co-operation through the OSCE and facilitates the exchange of information and best practices. On 27-28 August, the PCU organized a study visit of representatives and experts of the AntiTerrorism Centre Headquarters of the SBU to the TNTD/ATU to explore modes of international co-operation in concrete cases in the field of combating terrorism. The study visit was devoted to issues of improvement of data collection and analysis, the development and use of risk and threat assessments; and the promotion of the exchange of information and best practices in the sphere of combating terrorism. The visit further promoted liaisons 109