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Eurojust (European Union)

Flag of Eurojust - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 5 February 2025

Presentation of Eurojust
Flag of Eurojust
- Former flag of Eurojust
International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA)

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European Union

Presentation of Eurojust

Eurojust was established as a result of a decision that the European Council of Tampere (15-16 October 1999) made to set up a permanent judicial co-operation unit in order to improve the fight against serious crime [source: European Parliament]. The Treaty of Nice amended the Treaty on the European Union to include a reference to Eurojust. On December 14, 2000, a precursor organization called Pro-Eurojust was created by the Council of the European Union to permit prosecutors to test the Eurojust processes. It began operating in Brussels on March 1, 2003 [source: Eurojust website] giving way to the establishment of Eurojust, which was then
established in February 2002 as EU Judicial Cooperation Unit by Council Decision 2002/187/JHA. The new organization settled in The Hague on April 29, 2003.

The Eurojust Regulation (Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, replacing and repealing Council Decision 2002/187/JHA) was adopted on November 6, 2018 and became applicable on December 12, 2019.The Regulation established Eurojust as the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) and became directly applicable
on 12 December in the Member States, without a need for national transposing acts." [source: Eurojust website here and here].

Esteban Rivera, 4 July 2023

Flag of Eurojust

Flag of Eurojust - Image located by Esteban Rivera, 4 July 2023

On April 15, 2019 Eurojust officially introduced a new visual identity [source].
The consultants who designed Eurojust's new visual identity are Rogério Lira [official website] and Desmond Spruijt [official website].
For all the elements of the new identity, please see the Eurojust Media kit.

Source of the photo: ukranews (2023).

Former flag of Eurojust

Former flag of Eurojust - Image by Zoltán Horváth, 13 April 2011

The flag of Eurojust (photo) [before 2019] is white with the agency's logo in the middle.
On the logo, the yellow EU stars are overlapped by red, yellow and blue rectangles, a pair of scales, a sword and inscription are placed on various colors.

Zoltán Horváth, 13 April 2011

International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine

Flag of ICPA - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 15 May 2025 ; right, image located by Esteban Rivera, 4 July 2023

On November 2022, nine months after the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, "the European Commission and the European External Action Service presented a paper analysing the different options to ensure
full accountability for the crimes committed in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine, including the crime of aggression (in particular, defined as "The international definition considers the crime of aggression as a leadership crime that can only be committed by those with the power to shape a state's policy of aggression, rather than those who carry it out.", source: Eurojust website).
The setting up of the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine was announced at the 24th EU-Ukraine Summit on February 2, 2023.

On March 4, 2023 (other sources mention March 3 [source: euneighbourseast.eu and neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu]) the European Union (EU) agreed to establish an International Centre for the Prosecution of Crimes Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA) to fill in any gaps in prosecution from the International Criminal Court (ICC) as Russia had rejected the ICC jurisdiction to prosecute a case of aggression as neither Ukraine nor Russia ratified the 2010 ICC Kampala Amendments on "aggression" being added to the existing three grave international crimes, namely war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide (source: treaties.un.org).
Since the ICC which is investigating crimes during the Russian invasion of Ukraine but does not have jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed during the conflict, this initiative was enacted in order to prosecute such
acts.
This is in consonance with the complementary International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine (from the period since November 21, 2013) after the submission of the situation in the country by 43 State Parties of the Rome Statute which enabled the ICC to assign Pre-Trial Chamber II operational duties (source: icc-cpi.int), including the issuing of arrest warrants against two Russian citizens (sources: icc-cpi.int, video). This is part of a much broader International Criminal Tribunal for the Russian Federation as proposed by multiple parties (sources: article, article in Wikipedia).

It will be coordinated by Eurojust and will have prosecutors from the EU, USA, Ukraine and the ICC. Its office is located in The Hague and opened on July 3, 2023. It is tasked with collecting evidence, identifying witnesses and possible suspects and executing arrest warrants (including those issued by the ICC). It is a hub to foster judicial cooperation (sources: article, document, document in Eurojust website; article on Euronews).

The flag is white with logo (cropped image from Euronews live broadcast on July 3, 2023).

Esteban Rivera, 4 July 2023