United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

TWELFTH MEETING OF HONLEA, EUROPE

27 - 30 June 2017, Vienna, Austria

The 12 ^th meeting of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA), Europe was held in Vienna, from 27-230 June 2017.

More than 90 participants from 33 countries discussed the current situation with respect to regional and subregional cooperation in the area of drugs. The meeting enjoyed the participation of the Executive Director of UNODC, Mr. Yury Fedotov, the Chair of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, H.E. Bente Angell-Hansen, and the CND post UNGASS facilitator H.E. Pedro Moitinho de Almeida.

The meeting covered a wide range of issues, and included four working groups on:

(a) Use of the Internet for drug-related activities;
(b) Alternatives to imprisonment for certain offences as demand reduction strategies that promote public health and public safety;
(c) Money-laundering, illicit financial flows and effective countermeasures
(d) Mainstreaming gender perspectives in drug-related policies and programme

Participants held substantive discussions on major regional trafficking trends and effective countermeasures, international cooperation and technical assistance as well as practical measures taken in the implementation of recommendations that were adopted by the Eleventh HONLEA Europe meeting in 2015.

Delegations also discussed how they could contribute to the follow up to the 2016 Special Session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem and to the implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action of 2009.

The meeting further had the opportunity to visit the UNODC drug testing laboratories and discuss the challenges of New Psychoactive Substances.

A side event was organized by the Permanent Mission of Austria presenting the Austrian drug checking services.

Information for participants

Questionnaire on the implementation of recommendations adopted at the Eleventh meeting of HONLEA, Europe

Photos of the meeting

List of Documents:

Document Symbol	Title
UNODC/HONEUR/12/1	Provisional agenda, annotations and proposed organization of work
UNODC/HONEUR/12/2	Report of the Secretariat on Statistics on drug trafficking trends in Europe and worldwide
UNODC/HONEUR/12/3	Report of the Secretariat on current situation with respect to regional and subregional cooperation
UNODC/HONEUR/12/4	Note by the Secretariat on the review of implementation of the recommendations adopted at the Eleventh Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Europe, by States of the region
UNODC/HONEUR/12/5	Note by the Secretariat on the organization of the Thirteenth meeting of HONLEA, Europe
UNODC/HONEUR/12/6	Report on the Twelfth Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Europe

Agenda Item	Presentations
Item 3: Current situation with respect to regional and sub-regional cooperation	Drug trafficking trends in Europe and Worldwilde Work in South Eastern Europe
Item 5: Follow-up to the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem, and to the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem held in 2016	UNGASS 2016 - 100 Recommendations
Item 6: Consideration of Topics by Working Groups
WG 1: Use of the internet for drug-related activities	Cybercrime, drugs and the darknet
WG 2: Alternatives to imprisonment for certain offences and demand reduction strategies that promote health and public safety	Alternatives to imprisonment for drug-related offences Alternatives to imprisonment for certain offences as Demand Reduction strategies that promote Public Health and Public Safety
WG 3: Money-laundering, illicit financial flows and effective countermeasures	Global Programme against Money Laundering, Proceeds of Crime and the Financing of Terrorism (GPML) FIUs working with law enforcement/prosecutors
WG 4: Mainstreaming gender perspectives in drug-related policies and programmes	A Gender-responsive approach to addressing the world drug problem
Item 9: Other Business	Scientific and Forensic Services

Working Groups	Background Information
A	Use of the Internet for drug-related activities;
B	Alternatives to imprisonment for certain offences as demand reduction strategies that promote public health and public safety Assessment Tool on Alternatives to Incarceration, English, Russian, French Handbook of basic principles and promising practices on Alternatives to Imprisonment English, French, Spanish, Turkish Handbook on Strategies to Reduce Overcrowding in Prisons English, http://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/HB_on_Prison_Overcrowding-Arabic.pdf http://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/HB_on_Prison_Overcrowding._Indonesian.pdf Spanish, French Information note for criminal justice practitioners on non-custodial measures for women offenders English International Standards For The Treatment Of Drug Use Disorders English TREATNET Quality Standards For Drug Dependence Treatment And Care Services English From Coercion To Cohesion: Treating Drug Dependence Through Health Care, Not Punishment English, Spanish, Russian, French UNODC-WHO Joint Programme On Drug Dependence Treatment And Care - Brochure English, French, Russian, Spanish Principles Of Drug Dependence Treatment - UNODC/WHO Discussion Paper English
C	Money-laundering, illicit financial flows and effective countermeasures
D	Mainstreaming gender perspectives in drug-related policies and programme Gender in the Criminal Justice System Assessment Tool, English Handbook on Women and Imprisonment English 2nd edition, http://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/Women_and_Imprisonment-2nd_edition-A.pdf Russian, Turkish, Spanish Training curriculum on Women and Imprisonment Version 1.0, English, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian Information note for criminal justice practitioners on noncustodial measures for women offenders English