EUROPEAN NETWORK PROSECUTORS SYNTHETIC DRUGS AND PRECURSORS WEBSITE AND

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1 EUROPEAN NETWORK PROSECUTORS SYNTHETIC DRUGS AND PRECURSORS WEBSITE AND DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE ON CHEMICAL PRECURSORS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO COMBAT ILLICIT DRUGS PRODUCTION AND TRAFFIC

2 The European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) HELP supports the Council of Europe (CoE) Member States in implementing the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) at the national level in accordance with: the Committee of Ministers Recommendation (2004) 4 the 2012 Brighton Declaration the Resolution 1982 (2014) of the Parliamentary Assembly by enhancing the capacity of judges, lawyers and prosecutors of all 47 member States to apply the ECHR in their daily work

3 What is HELP? HELP NETWORK peer-to-peer European Human Rights Training Network composed of representatives from National Training Institutions for Judges and Prosecutors (NTIs) and Bar Associations (BAs) of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe To strengthen the HELP Network, national experts are appointed be the link between the respective national institution and the HELP Secretariat : HELP Focal Points HELP Info Points co-operate with the national training institutions for judges and prosecutors co-operate with the bar associations/law societies

4 PLATFROM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION FOR LEGAL PROFESSIONALS Training resources are developed and collected, those are available on-line, translated into the national languages. They include: training manuals on both ECHR Methodology and Key Concepts Handbooks standard curricula course outlines presentations case studies e-learning courses on the different Articles and themes of the ECHR

5 Self-training resources Distance-learning resources are accessible to any user by creating an account on are available for selected groups of legal professionals participating in pilot courses moderated by national tutors The following resources are already available: Admissibility criteria in applications submitted to the European Court of Human Rights Anti-discrimination issues Asylum and the ECHR Business and human rights Chemical precursors Community sanctions and alternative measures to detention Counterfeiting of medical products and crime against public health Family Law and Child-friendly justice Hate crime and hate speech International cooperation on criminal matters Introduction to the ECHR Trafficking in human beings

6 HELP in the 47 webpage HELP training resources News on ECHR training for all legal professionals in the 47 member states of the CoE HELP NATIONAL PAGES News on HELP in a specific country and on any activity concerning the implementation of human rights at the national level

7 HELP Consultative Board It is appointed by the HELP Network for providing advisory support to the HELP Secretariat. Among others, its tasks are: evaluate standard curricula and training materials developed by HELP propose priority themes for future training activities to the HELP Network identify an overall strategy for the co-ordination on human rights training among relevant international and national actors It shall be composed of six members and the term of office is of two years. In 2014 seven members were elected due to an exact equal number of votes for two of the candidates.

8 The Council of Europe's HELP Programme together with the Pompidou Group have recently taken the initiative to develop a website to develop a distance learning course for prosecutors in the field of chemical precursors for the production of drugs and new psychoactive substances. This initiative complements the cooperation between the European Network of Prosecutors in Synthetic Drugs and Precursors (ENPSDP) and the European Union s Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust).

9 OVERALL OBJECTIVE to improve the cooperation among international organisations and institutions on combating illicit drugs productions and traffic With the purpose to optimise human and economic resources all the existing activities in such a field should be listed to avoid duplications organised by different organisation.

10 EUROPEAN NETWORK PROSECUTORS SYNTHETIC DRUGS AND PRECURSORS WEBSITE to make all relevant information in the field accessible to a chosen group of experts to create a discussion platform where to exchange legal information and knowledge concerning synthetic drugs, new psychoactive substances and their precursors to collect materials related to the topic all the users are asked to feed the webpage by providing documents

11 ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE Now, it is restricted to: the pilot and working group members six specialised prosecutors the HELP Secretariat some representative from the Pompidou Group

12 In the near future it will be enlarged to other 4 categories of users: the members of the ENPSDP (group 1) other relevant prosecutors - prosecutors and legal assistants from the National Prosecution Offices who are specialised on synthetic drugs and chemical precursors (group 2) experts from police, customs and tax administration (group 3) experts from other competent authorities on synthetic drugs and chemical precursors (group 4)

13 STRUCTURE OF THE WEBSITE 1. INDUCTION News and discussion forum HELP website methodology Chat Glossary First visit to the website how to get started (training video) 2. WHAT S NEW 3. HISTORY AND ORGANISATION OF THE NETWORK

14 4. ENPSDP - POMPIDOU GROUP - HELP PROGRAMME - EUROJUST COOPERATION list of participants meeting reports 5. INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION ON RELEVANT DRUGS AND PRECURSOR CHEMICALS UN treaties and procedures (like PEN-online) EU Regulations and procedures EU bilateral agreements with 3rd countries Relevant bilateral agreements between two or more individual countries

15 6. BARRIER MODEL 7. INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENCE SHARING Risk indicators Profiling tools Labelling 8. DETECTION

16 9. INVESTIGATION Production Substances and materials o Precursors (listed) o New precursors (non listed) o Essential chemicals o Other chemicals o GBL Methods Hardware Finalising the production o Tableting machines o Logos o Cutting agents Final products o Synthetic drugs and psychoactive substances MDMA Amphetamine Methamphetamine GHB New psychoactive substances (NPS) o Others Heroin Cocaine Production sites and their dismantling Dumping of waste substances and materials

17 10. PROSECUTION International cooperation Controlled deliveries Judicial forensic expert and scientific reports Criminal profit calculation Health aspects 11. CASE LAW Indictments Court verdicts Other decisions 12. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

18 DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE ON CHEMICAL PRECURSORS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO COMBAT ILLICIT DRUG PRODUCTION AND TRAFFIC The development of the website and the distance learning course are related to one another All relevant information available in the website might be used as background and training materials for the course

19 HELP METHODOLOGY The distance learning course is being developed according to the HELP Methodology Some experts were appointed to draft of a full-fledged course The course could be launched either as a blended or distance learning course

20 CURRICULUM OF THE COURSE 1. INTRODUCTION Problem of precursors (definitions and general scenario) Historical background Actors/entities 2. INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION UN treaties EU regulations EU bilateral agreements with third countries

21 3. SYNTHETIC AND OTHER RELEVANT DRUGS AND PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES 4. PRECURSORS (SUBSTANCES) AND MATERIALS 5. INVESTIGATION 6. PROSECUTION (INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND JURISPRUDENCE) 7. CHEMICAL PRECURSORS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

22 The page of the course is available in the HELP Moodle platform The access is restricted to the experts of the working group in charge of the content of the course Once all the background materials are uploaded in the page and the content is drafted, an interactive product will be built by the HELP Secretariat and the course will be launched in some pilot countries for a selected group of prosecutors