27/05/2025
This international cooperation meeting takes place as a prelude to the General Assembly of the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors' Offices (AIAMP).
During these two days, more than 60 representatives from 17 Latin American, two European and two Western Balkan countries, including 16 prosecutors and attorneys general, discussed the main challenges in the fight against organised crime and the different possibilities of tackling them through international cooperation, articulated in the form of discussions coinciding with five thematic axes of cooperation supported by EL PACCTO 2.0.
The meeting, organised by the European Union (EU) cooperation programme against transnational organised crime, EL PACCTO 2.0, was attended by prosecutors and attorneys general from the countries attending the Assembly. This high-level forum will enable progress in the analysis and strategic coordination between Latin American prosecutors’ offices, regional justice networks, as well as with the European Union Agency for Criminal Judicial Cooperation (Eurojust) and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO).
The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, together with the Director of FIAP, Francisco Tierraseca, and the Director of the EL PACCTO 2.0 programme, Javier Samper, inaugurated the Thematic Dialogues on Justice in Madrid on the occasion of the General Assembly of the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors (AIAMP), which will be held in the city on 29 and 30 May and which EL PACCTO 2.0 has supported.
One of the programmed Dialogues focused on the Justice Policy Cycle (C-JUST) promoted by the programme, as the axis around which the relationship between Latin American justice institutions (AIAMP, CJI, COMJIB) and the EU is articulated. In this forum, EL PACCTO 2.0 has presented various technical assistance in areas such as data protection, promotion of the ratification of treaties or digital evidence; with the aim that the three institutions address the coordination between Justice and security, international criminal cooperation and the mainstreaming of the gender perspective.
Likewise, the pilot experience of the enhanced cooperation mechanism set up between the public prosecutors’ offices of Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Peru with the support of EL PACCTO 2.0 was discussed, as an agile model of regional operational coordination that allows the exchange of information and the identification of complex cases linked to organised crime among the participating countries.
Likewise, the strategic relationship between Eurojust and EPPO has been strengthened, as key partners for the institutional and operational strengthening of Latin American prosecutors’ offices. This momentum will result in the signing of working agreements between the EPPO and the prosecutors’ offices of Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Peru, as well as with the AIAMP, which will be signed during the Assembly and whose monitoring and development will allow for a more fluid operational relationship in the coming months.
The event provided a space for cooperation between AIAMP member countries and the Western Balkans, deepening the collaboration between the two regions initiated by Eurojust’s Western Balkans Criminal Justice (WBCJ) project, which focuses on achieving operational progress in tackling transnational organised crime.
Finally, during this conference, PACCTO 2.0 presented the Joint Research Teams Channel (ECI+ Channel) as an assistance centre to support initiatives for the constitution and implementation of these international cooperation tools between and with Latin American and Caribbean countries under the terms of the programme’s mandate.
