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(S)OCTA
Michel QUILLÉ
Deputy Director Europol
Centre for the Study of Democracy
Sofia, Bulgaria – 3 April 2012
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Subjects to be discussed:
1. The OCTA 2011: 8 priorities
2. The future: SOCTA 2013
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OCTA 2011
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Council Conclusions November 2010 on the
creation of an EU Policy Cycle
Policy cycle for serious international and organised
crime: 4 steps
1. Policy development based upon EU-SOCTA
(European Union Serious and Organised Crime
Threat Assessment);
2. Policy setting and decision making by the Council.
Each priority a MASP (Multi-Annual Strategic Plan);
3. Implementation and monitoring of OAP (Operational
Action Plans= EMPACT);
4. Evaluation and input next intelligence cycle
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OCTA 2011: 2 year cycle
•The implementation of an initial and reduced 2 year
policy cycle 2011 – 2013 on the basis of OCTA-2011
 OCTA 2011
 Executive summary including conclusions and a list of
recommended crime priorities
• The implementation of a 4 year policy cycle
2013 – 2017 on the basis of EU-SOCTA 2013
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BELGIUM
HUNGARY
POLAND
DENMARK
January 2012
Operational
Action Plans/
EMPACT
2012
March 2011
OCTA 2011
October 2011
Strategic
objectives
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CYPRUS
IRELAND
January 2013
Operational
Action Plans/
EMPACT 2013
What does it really mean?
Threat (SOCTA)
• Crime hurts society
Political aspiration / priority (COUNCIL)
• To have a society safe from crime (which?)
Strategic goals (COSI)
• Less crime, jailed criminals, stronger society
Operational activities (OAP, EMPACT)
• Improved cooperation, focussed targeting, intensified
coordinated actions
Evaluation (Commission)
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OCTA 2011: 8 Political priorities
• Weaken the capacity of organised crime groups active or based in West Africa to traffic cocaine and heroin
to and within the EU;
• Mitigate the role of the Western Balkans, as a key transit and storage zone for illicit commodities destined
for the EU and logistical centre for organised crime groups, including Albanian-speaking organised crime
groups;
• Weaken the capacity of organised crime groups to facilitate illegal immigration to the EU, particularly via
southern, south-eastern and eastern Europe and notably at the Greek-Turkish border and in crisis areas of
the Mediterranean close to North Africa;
• Reduce the production and distribution in the EU of synthetic drugs, including new psychoactive
substances;
• Disrupt the trafficking to the EU, particularly in container form, of illicit commodities, including cocaine,
heroin, cannabis, counterfeit goods and cigarettes;
• Combat against all forms of trafficking in human beings and human smuggling by targeting the organised
crime groups conducting such criminal activities in particular at the southern, south-western and southeastern criminal hubs in the EU;
• Reduce the general capabilities of mobile (itinerant) organised crime groups to engage in criminal activities;
• Step up the fight against cybercrime and the criminal misuse of the internet by organised crime groups.
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Implementation ACTION PLANS
 From 1st January 2012
 Key role of “Driver”
 EU funding
 Europol support (Co-Driver)
 Support Unit at Europol (EMPACT Support Group)
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EMPACT: Involvement Bulgaria
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Illegal immigration
Trafficking in human beings
Mobile (itinerant) groups
Cybercrime
SOCTA 2013
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SOCTA
 Council: the SOCTA must provide a complete and
thorough assessment of criminal threats impacting
on the EU, both regional and pan-European;
 New methodology to be developed under the
leadership of Europol on the basis of customer
requirements endorsed by COSI and in close
cooperation with the relevant experts;
 First SOCTA to be delivered in 2013 for the purpose
of the international and organised crime policy cycle
2013 – 2017;
 In 2015 an interim SOCTA will be produced.
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Overview Planning
Council
Conclusions
Customer
Requirements SOCTA
Formal validation
SOCTA Methodology
EU Policy Cycle
COSI
COSI
Thank you
2010
2011
2012
2013
SOCTA 2013
Recommended
priorities SOC
Customer
Requirements meeting
SOCTA
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Methodology
Workshops MS+
third partners
Defining
Intelligence
gaps + Data
collection
SOCTA via EU
IR
Data
Analysis
SOCTA
SOCTA New Methodology
 Developed by Europol in cooperation with
MS + third partners (5 Workshops Nov 2011
– April 2012)
 Broader scope
 Academic input
 - Final meeting April 2011
 Endorsement COSI level June
 Methodology: Public document (Sept 2012)
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Thank you