Promoting a consistent approach to prosecuting environmental crime across Europe.

The new Environmental Crime Directive (EU) 2024/ 1203 includes, in Article 21, an obligation for Member States to establish and publish a national strategy on combating environmental criminal offences by 21 May 2027. For EU Member States, this is a direct obligation and for candidate Member States it is relevant as being a part of the EU acquis.

Our latest ENPE newsletter - Issue Number 26, for the Summer 2026 - has just been published and is available as a pdf for downloading. This edition updates on all our activities over the last 6 months, including work on the new EU Environmental Crime Directive 1203/ 2024, hosting workshops, providing training and awareness raising and outreach work beyond Europe. We hope you enjoy reading it and as ever, do feel free to share it far and wide.

ENPE, together with the Eurojust implemented Western Balkans Criminal Justice (WBCJ) Project organised and hosted a regional conference on environmental crime in Zagreb on the 20-21 May 2026 that brought together prosecutors from the Western Balkans, the Eastern Partnership, and EU Member States as well as others from further afield such as the Republics of Moldova and Armenia. The Croatian Minister for Environment opened proceedings encouraging delegates to make the most of the occasion with such a variety of topics and countries presented.