Armenia to appoint representative at Eurojust 

ArmInfo.A prosecutor (representative) for cooperation issues in Eurojust will be appointed at the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in the Kingdom of the  Netherlands. The corresponding decision was made on September 25 at a  regular government meeting. "

As stated in the explanatory note to the document, on April 5, 2024,  the Agreement on Cooperation between the competent authorities of the  Republic of Armenia and the European Union in the field of legal  cooperation in criminal proceedings and the European Union Agency for  Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) was signed, ratified on  September 10, 2024.

Based on the aforementioned Agreement, on September 3, 2024, the  Working Agreement on the implementation of the Agreement between the  Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of  Armenia and Eurojust on cooperation between the competent authorities  of the Republic of Armenia and the European Union in the field of  legal cooperation in criminal proceedings and the European Union  Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) was signed,  approved by decree of the President of the Republic of Armenia on  November 29, 2024.

"With the adoption of the draft, a prosecutor (representative) for  cooperation with Eurojust will be established at the Embassy of the  Republic of Armenia in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This will  ensure the exchange of information and data necessary for actions  aimed at identifying transnational crimes. This, in turn, will  facilitate the rapid and efficient execution of requests from central  or competent authorities of the Republic of Armenia to competent  authorities of a foreign state for legal assistance in criminal  proceedings, including extradition requests, as well as relevant  requests from competent authorities of foreign states," the document  states.

The European Union Agency for Criminal Justice (Eurojust) is a  pan-European framework promoting cooperation between prosecutors'  offices of the Member States of the European Union. Its aim is to  establish a network of prosecutors from Member States of the European  Union and third countries, which are not members of the EU, to  improve the effectiveness of prosecutorial cooperation in the fight  against transnational crime.  This network facilitates the exchange  of collected data between competent authorities of both Member States  of the European Union and third countries.