The Fight against Organized Crime within the European Union
The Fight against Organized Crime within the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The European Union has unequivocally and decisively engaged in the fight against organized crime since the adoption of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the resolution of the European Council meeting in Amsterdam on 16 and 17 June 1997, setting up the first action plan against organized crime. Previously, Council resolutions of 23 November 1995 on the protection of witnesses in the fight against international organized crime and of 20 December 1996 on individuals who cooperate with the judicial process in the fight against international organized crime were adopted. Further, in 1998 a document on criminalization was adopted in order to suppress the different forms of participation in a criminal organization: namely, Action commune 98/733/JAI of 21 December 1998 on making it a criminal offence to participate in a criminal organisation in the Member States of the European Union - JO de l’ Union europeenne no. 351, 29/12/1998.

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