European Committee on Crime Problems Deals with Transnational Organized Crime, Cultural Property, Migrant Smuggling, and Prison and Prisoner Transfer Issues

The Council of Europe’s (CoE) European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) held its 69th plenary session on December 1-4, 2015, in Strasbourg. The Committee considered four issues as the main priorities to be implemented over the next two years (2016-2017): (1) starting the work on the implementation of the Action Plan on Transnational Organized Crime (hereafter TOC); (2) drafting a new convention on cultural property; (3) considering how to best deal with the question of smuggling of migrants; and (4) following-up the activities related to its subordinate bodies on penitentiary issues (PC-CP) and international co-operation matters (PC-OC).