The first interinstitutional talks on Tuesday 7 November on reform of the governance model for Eurojust, the EU's judicial cooperation agency, were constructive, explains a close European source.
In the first trialogue, the parties simply made general comments about the draft legislation, but the position decided upon by the European Parliament on 19 October (see EUROPE 11887) was quite close to that reached by the Council in March 2015 (see EUROPE 11274), and the institutions have moved on in their in-depth examination of the legislation. During the meeting, which lasted nearly two hours, they looked at Articles 1 to 8 on structure, missions, powers and operational functions for Eurojust along with the regulations and powers of its national members, said the source.
The source added that the most complex areas of the negotiations would be Eurojust’s structure, data projection and power-sharing between Eurojust and the European Prosecutor’s Office, a new stricture for tackling fraud against the EU's financial interests, which is due to come on stream in 2019.
A technical meeting is due to take place this week before a new trialogue in the week of 20 November. (Original version in French by Marion Fontana)