Organising Institution
University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
The e-Evidence Regulation Soon Going Live! Implementation Challenges, Unresolved Issues and Intersection with Other Legal Instruments
- Workshop
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Starting 18 August 2026, law enforcement and judicial authorities in the EU will gain the power to issue direct cross-border preservation and production orders regarding electronic communications data against service providers established or represented in another Member State. While the adoption of the e-Evidence Regulation was a major achievement, marking a milestone in cross-border cooperation, its implementation implies considerable technical preparations and legal adjustments. At EU level, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts to establish a secure IT system – a process concerning industry and Member States. States must also adopt national laws, define sanction mechanisms, and ensure appropriate remedies. Equally important, authorities require training to properly apply the new orders. The workshop aims to take stock of this complex implementation process, with representatives of all stakeholders (European/national authorities, industry, NGOs, academia), and to discuss constructive solutions for real-world problems in times when fundamental rights are under increasing pressure.
Featuring Federico Cappelletti (ECBA), Marie-Hélène Descamps (Belgian Ministry of Justice), Aisling Kelly (Microsoft), Marc van der Ham (Leiden University), Tania Schröter (European Commission).
Host
Vanessa Franssen
University of Liège - Belgium
Vanessa Franssen is Professor at the University of Liège and Affiliated Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminal Law of the KU Leuven. She specializes in cybercrime, EU criminal law, economic & financial criminal law, national & comparative criminal law and criminal procedure. Her recent research focuses mainly on the impact of new technologies (including AI and cryptocurrencies) on criminal law and criminal procedure. She is the co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook on Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Host
Stanislaw Tosza
University of Luxembourg - Luxembourg
Stanislaw Tosza is Full Professor in Compliance and Law Enforcement. He teaches and researches comparative and European criminal law, white-collar crime, compliance law and cyberlaw. He focuses mainly on the interaction between enforcement and new technologies, conducting research on such issues as gathering of electronic evidence for criminal and administrative investigations, the use of AI in enforcement, combatting of illicit speach, protection of children digital safety. His overall research theme is the role of private actors (such as digital platforms) in contributing to enforcement.
Before joining the University of Luxembourg, Stanislaw was assistant professor at the Willem Pompe Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Utrecht University. As visiting researcher he spent also time at Georgetown University Law Center, D.C. (2019), Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University (2017) and Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg i.B. (2008-2010). He defended cum laude his PhD thesis on criminal liability of managers for excessive risk-taking at Utrecht University and at the University of Luxembourg in 2016.
Stanislaw published numerous articles and five books: a monography “Criminal Liability of Managers in Europe. Punishing Excessive Risk White Collar Crime” (Hart 2018), and four collective volumes: “White collar crime. A Comparative Perspective” (Hart 2018), “Combatting illicit trade in tobacco products” (Springer 2022), “Gathering electronic evidence from online services providers in administrative punitive proceedings” (University of Luxembourg 2025) and “The Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations” (Cambridge University Press 2025).
Since 2019 he has been the Secretary General of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP).