Executive Director of Europol

1. About Europol

The European Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) is an Agency of the European Union (EU) located in The Hague, the Netherlands. Europol was established in 1995 by a Convention under Article K of the Treaty on European Union and set up as an entity of the Union in 2009 by the Council Decision 2009/371/JHA. Regulation (EU) 2016/794 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 (the ‘Europol Regulation’) on the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), amended by Regulation (EU) 2022/991 of 8 June 2022, established Europol as an EU Agency.
Europol’s objective is to support and strengthen action by the competent authorities of the Member States as well as their mutual cooperation in preventing and combatting serious crime affecting two or more Member States, terrorism and other forms of crime which affect a common interest covered by a Union policy.
In order to achieve its mission, Europol currently...