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2007 discharge: European Union's Judicial Cooperation Unit Eurojust

2008/2263(DEC)

PURPOSE: to present the final accounts of EUROJUST for the financial year 2007.

CONTENT: this document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of EUROJUST’s budget for the financial year 2007. It notes that EUROJUST’s final budget amounted to EUR 18.9 million in 2007 (compared to EUR 14.7 million in 2006).

As regards the staffing policy, EUROJUST, whose head office is based in The Hague (The Netherlands), set out 147 posts in its establishment plan of which 98 are currently occupied. 32 other posts (contract agents, seconded national experts and employment agency staff) are also occupied totalling 179 posts assigned to operational, administrative and mixed tasks.

In 2007, EUROJUST’s main activities concentrated on  bilateral and multilateral cooperation operations with regard to:

  • 236 standard cases;
  • 849 complex cases.

Total number of cases: 1 085 in the following areas:

  • Fraud: 744 cases;
  • Drug trafficking: 207 cases;
  • Terrorism: 23 cases;
  • Murder: 80 cases;
  • Trafficking in human beings: 71 cases.

In total, members met 91 times in the course of 2007.

The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address: http://www.EUROJUST.europa.eu/adm_budg_finance.htm