OSCE supports Meeting of Executive Board of Permanent Conference of Prosecutors

The programmatic activities for 2021 and a decision on the next host country for its Secretariat were the focus of the meeting of the Executive Board of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (PCOCP) on 23 February 2021.

The meeting was held online with the joint support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA). It brought together senior prosecutors of different jurisdictions (Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Romania) and representatives of the Italian National Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Directorate, along with officials of the OSCE.

Stemming from an initiative of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, this regional co-operation mechanism is now supported by the OSCE extra-budgetary project, “Strengthening the fight against transnational organized crime in South-Eastern Europe through improved regional co-operation in asset seizure, confiscation, management and re-use”.

The PCOCP includes fourteen organized crime prosecution offices from OSCE participating States and represents an essential platform for co-operation and information exchange on transnational organized crime cases, in line with the United National Convention on Transnational Organized Crime.  

The extra-budgetary project that supports the Conference is jointly implemented by TNTD and OCEEA, in co-ordination with OSCE field operations and with financial support of the United States, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom.