Equipe

Theoretical intellectual approach is complemented by high quality research co-produced with jurists, judges, prosecutors, professionals and experts in the fields of European Criminal Legislation and Justice. The project is intended to promote an exchange expertise and knowledge in the area of VAT serious fraud and the Protection of the European Union’s financial interests, exploring a multidisciplinary approach to the actual European Criminal legislation and Justice in Europe.

Project Academic coordinator

Senior Research Fellow & Professor of European Criminal Law and Justice at Università Piemonte Orientale (Law Department DIGSPES, Alessandria).

Lawyer, Member of the Bar Association of Livorno since 2000.

Legal Expert in the field of International Judicial Cooperation in Criminal matters for National Committee charged by the Italian Ministry of Justice (decreto 27 luglio 2006) to reform the Italian Criminal Procedure Code.

Member of the Association Internationale de Droit Pénal (AIDP) since 2016.

From 2016 onwards, Member of the Scientific Committee of “Scuola di Formazione forense Ambrosoli” for the continuing education programme of lawyers for the Legal Bar of Alessandria, Novara, Vercelli.

Member of the Scientific Committee for the Global Conference on Business, Hospitality and Tourism Research (GLOSEARCH) that will take place on October 2-5, 2018 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, hosted by Hoa Sen University, Vietnam.

Experienced researcher in foreign Universities (Cambridge, Oxford, New York University School of Law, Collège de France) and guest lecturer in law schools in Italy at various times (University Federico II Naples; University of Turin, Master on European Criminal Justice; University of Turin, for Ph D students; University of Catania at International Conference organized with the support of the Jean Monnet Project).

Responsible for creating the Law Faculty's student stages programmes with Courts and Judicial authorities’ Offices.

From 2010 onwards, Research Expert in the Italian database MIUR for the Evaluation of Universities and Research.

In 2007 lectures to Italian judges as part of the continuing education programme of the Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura, Roma on Terrorism and organized crime.

From 2007 onwards, training Italian police commisioners on Evidence, Mutual Recognition Principle, Extradition and European Arrest Warrant (Scuola Superiore di Polizia, Ministero degli Interni, Roma) and Editor for Review (“Diritto e Giustizia”, Giuffrè) on European Criminal Justice (2000-2006).

Participation at various times in National Research Projects supported by the Italian Ministry of University/Research and relevant Italian Universities on Italian Criminal Law and Procedure.

Publications: Many; a full list is available on the University PIEMONTE ORIENTALE website. To access it, use the following link https://upobook.uniupo.it/barbara.piattoli

Academic Coordinator; Project Manager, responsible for planning and design each succeeding project phase.

Members

Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of Italy (3rd Chamber. Sector: tax-crimes, sexual offences, child pornography, prostitution, environmental crimes, drugs crime).

Experience as a Deputy Prosecutor and Chief Prosecutor in corruption crimes.

Supervision of bank activity and checking. Legal Expert for the Italian Ministry of Justice (Legislative Department), drafting legislative text in working groups with ministries’ officer (money laundering, management of seized property, immigration problems).

From 9/2013 to 04/2015. Temporarily assigned to Ministry of Environmental Affairs as Vice Cabinet Administrator to cover environmental crimes legislation.

From 12/2008 to 09/2010 full time and to 09/2013 as external legal expert: Judge seconded as legal advisor and counselor in the staff of one of the fifteen Italian Constitutional Judges.

From 05/2002 to 09/2007 Judge at the Research Office of Massimario (Supreme Court of Justice) which manages the preparatory works of the judgements, researching over past decisions and drafts the synthesis of the judgment with the purpose of submitting them in the national judicial database.

Team work at international level with foreign delegations.

2003-2007: Member of the Experts’ Group on human trafficking established by the European Commission that wrote the Report in 2004.

Member of Italian delegation: at European level in the following groups: K4, GMD and Committee on art. 36, money laundering group; at international level: UN ad hoc Committee for the drafting of the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and connected Protocols, FATF and G7 meeting on financial crime, Lyon Group (G8) on judicial cooperation and on immigration.

Works as legal expert in several European twining projects relating with organized crime and corruption.

Responsible on behalf of the Ministry, for devising and drawing up a Project to monitor and analyse investigative activities related to smuggling and human trafficking.

Negotiation skills in international meetings. Visiting Professor at the Law Department of the University of Florence.

Since 1988 Guest Lecturer at various Universities (Macerata, Roma, Urbino, Teramo, Bologna, Verona, Trento). Speaker in several International Meetings and twining projects on organized crime, corruption, judicial cooperation, protection of victims and trafficking of human beings (among the others: Serbia, Hungaria, Latvia, Slovenia, Romania, Turkey, Korea, Italy).

Project Team Member. Responsible for producing deliverables. Responsible for the implementation of, screening, access of the project.

National Member of Eurojust for Italy since 2016.

From 2017 onwards Vice-President of Eurojust .

Coordination of investigations and prosecutions of serious crimes having a transnational dimension (cases concerning organized crime, terrorism, smuggling of migrants, international drug trafficking, money laundering, THB, international fraud, corruption).

Facilitation of the execution of judicial cooperation requests for mutual legal assistance in criminal proceedings.

2011 onwards- Legal Advisor, European Commission. Member of Group of Experts on THB (Assisting and advising the EU Anti Trafficking Coordinator)

May 2012 onwards- Deputy National Antimafia Prosecutor. Coordination of investigations and prosecutions concerning organized crime. Responsible for the International Judicial Cooperation Department in the National Antimafia Directorate.

2003- 2008 Deputy Antimafia Public Prosecutor. Responsible for investigations and prosecutions in judicial penal proceedings concerning organized crime, money laundering, THB, international corruption, international drug trafficking, human smuggling, fraud committed by organized groups.

Substitute Expert Member in the Committee for the High Supervision of Public Works in relation to EXPO Exhibition 2015 (Milan). He has chaired various types of teams and working groups for the analysis of criminal problems, legislation(e.g. Latvian and Portuguese legislations for mutual evaluation conducted by EU institutions), policies and strategies to be elaborated in the framework of Council of Europe, European Commission, Eurojust, UNODC.

Expert member of the group appointed by the Council of Europe for drafting “the white paper” on organized crime. Member of the scientific committee for national training for judges (2006- 2008).

Lectures in EU criminal law and EU institutions at the Faculty of Law of the following Italian universities: Naples, Bologna, Law University of Salerno, Trento, Milan (Bicocca), Rome (Carlo Luiss) and in national and international conferences and seminars.

Project Team Member. Responsible for communication, reports, monitoring.

Full Professor of Criminal Procedure, University of Benevento-Italy.

Lawyer practising certificate on 27 November 1996 at the Court of Appeal of Trieste.

Member of the research doctorate in General Theory of legal processes (Faculty of Law, Lum Jean Monnet University).

Member of the Ministerial Commission in charge of the development of draft legislative decrees for the: implementation of the 2000 EU Convention on Legal Assistance; transposal of the EU Directive no. 2014/41 on the European Investigation Order (EIO) in criminal matters; on mutual acknowledgment of criminal judgments, Ministerial Decree 15.12.2015.

Member of the Ministerial Commission for the proposal of direct actions concerning the criminal proceedings, appointed by the then Minister of Justice Dr. Cancellieri (Ministerial Decree – Justice 10.6.2013) during the 18th Legislature and chaired by Director Canzio, at that time President of the Court of Cassation.

From 2015 Coordinator of the Court of cassation - Criminal Proceedings Observatory for the Diritto penale e processo journal, Wolters Kluwer-Ipsoa, Milano;

Member of the Board of Professional Journals: Diritto penale e processo journal, Wolters Kluwer, Ipsoa, Milano (14.4.2016); Studium Iuris, Cedam editore, Padova. Member of several scientific committees (Problemi attuali della Giustizia penale series, directed by Prof. Gaito- Marzaduri- Fiandanca-Lanzi, Dike Giuridica; Temi di procedura penale series, directed by Prof. Gaito and Spangher; ILPENALISTA.IT portal, Giuffrè editore, Milano; La parola alla difesa journal, Pacini Editore, Archivio Penale journal, Aracne editrice; La Corte d’Assise journal, ESI editore; Il Lyrius international journal, Tirana).

Member of the Corporate legality observatory of the University of Camerino (Decree no. 121/2016).

Referee of several reviews (Cassazione penale journal, Giuffré editore, Milano; Diritto penale e processo journal, Wolters Kluwer, Ipsoa, Milano; Giurisprudenza Italiana journal, Wolters Kluwer, Milano; Legislazione penale journal, Jovene editore, Napoli; DipLap series, Jovene editore, Napoli).

Project Team Member. Responsible for dissemination, request data and analysis

Associate Professor at the Department of Law, University of Perugia, holding the Chair of Criminal Procedure.

She also holds the course of Criminal Procedure and Forensic Investigation Techniques in Department of Medicine, Master's Degree in Medical, Veterinary And Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies, University of Perugia, Italy.

Member of the Board of “Scuola di Specializzazione per le professioni legali”, Department of Law, University of Perugia, Italy.

Coordinator of the Post Graduate Course in “Criminal Procedure” in the “Scuola di Specializzazione per le professioni legali”, Department of Law, University of Perugia, Italy.

Author of 3 monographs, she has coordinated 3 anthologies and has published more than 100 essays and articles in books and law journals in Italy and abroad.

She is involved in various aspects of the criminal process (evidence and scientific investigations, seizure and confiscation, alternative proceedings, parliamentary immunities, the comparison with foreign procedural systems and models) and fundamental rights, analyzing ECHR case law.

Since 2009 Member of a research group in the Department of Law, University of Perugia, about "The effectiveness of the rights in the light of the ECHR case law.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the series “Giustizia penale attuale”, ed. Dike Giuridica and of the Editorial Staff of the Legal Journals “Archivio penale”, Osservatorio del processo penale.

She is a member of the Departmental Commission (Department of Law – Perugia) for the books "Quaderni della ricerca", www.diritti-cedu.unipg.it.

She is among the coordinators of several books ("Codice di procedura penale annotato", edited by A. Gaito – E. Marzaduri, Pisa University Press, 2016; “Procedura penale”, IPSOA, II° ed., Milano, 2015; Codice di procedura penale ipertestuale commentato, Utet, Torino, ed. 2006, 2008, 2012; Codice di procedura penale annotato, Utet, Torino, ed. 2006, 2007, 2008). She has collaborated in "Codice penale e di procedura penale e Leggi complementari", edited by D. Brunelli - C. Fiorio, Novecento Editore, 2017.

Visiting scholar thanks to a scholarship CNR – NATO, University of Colorado, School of Law, Boulder, May - August 2003. University Carlos III, Madrid (Spain), Criminal, Procedural And History Law, Area of Procedural And Litigation Law, Seminar about “Scientific evidence and DNA: a comparison between Italy and Spain. Which perspectives for European cooperation?" (Lifelong Learning Programme –LLP), April 2013.

Coordinator of Resulting Project Publication and deliverables

Full Professor of Criminal Procedure, University of Perugia – Italy.

Member of the Teachers’ Committee of the PhD in Consumer Law at the University of Urbino. Scientific Manager of Hook231 s.r.l.

Member of the Board of various Professional Journals ("Archivio Penale", “Giurisprudenza It.”, “Giurisprudenza di Merito” and “Osservatorio del processo penale”, Antigone” and “Rassegna Giuridica Umbra”).

He is co-autor of "Codice penale e di procedura penale e Leggi complementari", Novecento Editore, 2017. Member of the Drafting Committee of the book series “Codice di procedura penale commentato”, 4° ed., edited by prof. A. Giarda-G. Spangher, Ipsoa, Milano, 2010.

In the course of his academic career he has been involved with a number of projects of law reform. These include:

• 18-03-2014, consultant to a project on detention ex art. 41-bis italian judiciary and penitentiary system at the Senate Commitee for Human Rights protection;

• 27-09-2012,consultant to a Law Commission (Italian Parliament) on a project to reform precautionary measures system (C 255 Bernardini, C 1846 Cota, C 4616 Bernardini, C 5295 Papa e C 5399 Ferranti).

• 9 and 12-04- 2012, consultant to a Committee charged by the Italian Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura to reform surveillance judiciary.

• Member of a Committee of experts set up by the Ministry of Justice (d.m. 2 luglio 2013) to study and produce a proposal on alternatives to detention.

Legal advisor, responsible of a group of experts within the Criminal Procedure Committee set by the Ministry of Justice (D.I. 27 luglio 2006) to reform Italian Criminal Procedure Code.

Lecturer in foreign Universities. Independent Authority set up by Regione Umbria to protect fundamental rights and freedoms of the persons subject to restrictive measures (26/05/2014 – 3/01/ 2016).

Member of the Committee of Inquiry on organized crime and drug addiction within the Legislative Assembly, Regione Umbria 14/11/2014- 31/05/2015).

Project Team Member. Management representatives from the key organizations involved in the project oversight and control, and any other key stakeholder groups that have special interest in the outcome of the project

Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure at the Law Faculty of the University "Federico II" of Naples (Italy), holding the chair of Criminal Procedure and Comparative Penal Law and Justice.

PhD in Criminal System and Process (thesis on "The principle of orality and the system of readings"), University of Naples "Federico II".

Member of the Ministerial Commission established at the Italian Ministry of Justice-Legislative Office, in Rome, with the Ministerial Decree of July 19, 2017, for the reform of the prison system (chaired by Prof. Glauco Giostra).

Expert member of the Italian delegation to the GRECO Commission (Group of States against Corruption) based in Strasbourg, established in the Council of Europe, from March 2014 to February 2015.

Partecipation in the period January-June 2009, as a medium-term expert (MTE) in ministerial commissions and the final round table at the Italian Ministry of Justice - Department for Justice Affairs, for the Twining project ( fYRoM 05 IB JH 01), financed by the European Union between the Public Prosecutor's Office of Macedonia and the Italian Ministry of Justice on "Fight against organized crime and the unit of corruption / public prosecutor", for the reform of the Macedonian criminal procedure.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ministerial Commission established at the Legislative Office (Ministry of Justice, Rome) with the Ministerial Decree of 10 June 2013, and chaired by Dr. Giovanni Canzio, President of the Court of Appeal of Milan.

Professor of Criminal Procedure in the Master in "Criminology and Criminal Law, Criminal Analysis and Politics for Urban Security", organized at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Naples "Federico II" (2011).

Legal expert for the members of the Justice Committee at the Italian Parliament (Chamber of Deputies) (2008/2009) collaborating specifically on penal legislation with the "Democratic Party Pd" Group Head within the aforementioned parliamentary committee.

Member of the Technical-Scientific Committee that assisted the Ministerial Study Commission for the reform of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure, chaired by Prof. Giuseppe Riccio and established by an Interministerial Decree of 27 July 2006 at the Legislative Office of the Italian Ministry of Justice, Rome. In this capacity, as well as being constantly present at the plenary meetings of the Commission, she carried out all documentation and support activities for both the Commission and the individual Sub-Commissions, with particular interest in jurisprudence, including constitutional law, in various sectors of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

In 2010 member of the Management Committee of the Bimonthly Law and Legal Journal, a body for the training of lawyers of the National Council of Forensic, Futurgest editions. In this capacity he has been in charge of criminal law and criminal procedural law.

Training for Lawyers at the University of Naples "Federico II" since 2004, at the University of Molise (2002/2003) and at the School of Interior Administration, Rome (Initial training course for Commissioners of the CFS, in 2011).

Lcturer at many times at the Jean Monnet School of San Leucio on "The Ordinances of Common and Civil Law" (2003-2004), at the University of Salerno (Specialization course for European Penal Lawyers on "The system of appeals in the legal systems of common and civil law" and "Profiles of the judicial organization in England"), at the University of Cassino and Milan – Bicocca, and within the Project "Beni confiscati", for the Ministry of the Interior - Department of Public Security – Rome (2005/2006), which was divided into six meetings of classes to various categories of civil servants; for Public Administration, within the national operational program "security for the development of Southern Italy".

Member of many national research groups with the University of Milan (1996 - "The reforms of criminal justice systems in Europe: common law and civil law countries"; 1997 - "The right process and protection of rights"; 1998 - "Principles, Forms and Organization of Criminal Jurisdiction").

In 2013 Visiting Professor at the University of New Haven in the State of Connecticut - United States of America, and at the University of "Social Justice", for research on comparative probative law and for lessons to the students of that Faculty on the Italian criminal trial system. In the same period she had the opportunity to perform auditor activities in the state courts of first instance, appeal and supreme in Connecticut.

Project Team Member. Responsible for dissemination, request data and analysis.