The Official Handover Ceremony of specialised technical equipment for Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, procured by EU-ACT, was held on 22nd of June 2020 in Tbilisi.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, EU-ACT has managed to complete another activity in Georgia: International Peer Review of the National Prevention Strategy on Substance Abuse have been made by Professor, Dr. hab. Krzystof Ostaszewski, Researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology of Poland and Dr. Boguslawa Bukowska, Deputy Director of the National Bureau of Drug Prevention.

From 16th to 17th June EU-ACT Ukraine has organised a two days webinar, chaired by the head of Ukrainian FIU Academy Prof. Anton Chubenko, with more than 120 Ukrainian practitioners from all Ukrainian´s LEA´s. Also 5 international top-level EU experts in the field have participated: one from EU-ACT (José Manuel Colodrás), two from EUAM (Frantisek SAILER and Mr. Oscar Rey), one expert and officer or EUDEL in Moldova (Igoris Krzeckovskis) and above all the President of Moneyval and representative of the Polish Government (Ms. Elżbieta Franków-Jaskiewicz). All of them have extensive and in-depth experience in Ukraine and adapted the presentations to national needs.

The Project EU-ACT aims at building capacities to increase regional and trans-regional law enforcement cooperation and coordination in the fight against organized crime and drug trafficking along the heroin route. In addition, the Project has, as additional goal, to develop a sustainable drug policy and reduce the drug demand.