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A ministerial declaration and other key outcomes are presented at the end of the meeting during a press conference with Sam Tanson, Minister of Justice, and Kerri-Ann Jones, OECD Deputy Secretary General. The livestreaming starts at 2:15pm.

The Minister for Family Affairs and Integration, Corinne Cahen, the Minister for Home Affairs, Taina Bofferding, and the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, are pleased with yesterday's vote in the Chamber of Deputies on the law amending the amended electoral law of 18 February 2003.

Luxembourg has just finalised its first vertical risk assessment on terrorist financing. This vertical risk assessment was carried out under the guidance of the Ministry of Justice and the results were adopted on 17 May 2022 by the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Prevention Committee (BC/TF Prevention Committee).

Today, the Minister for Home Affairs, Taina Bofferding, and the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, presented the details of the modernisation of the celebration of civil marriage and partnership (PACS).

On March 28, 2022 Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne, hosted a meeting of the "Vendôme Group", in which the French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Luxembourg Ministers of Justice participated.

Following the war in Ukraine, many people continue to flee their country to other European countries, including Luxembourg. Most of them are women, children and elderly people, often lacking financial and material resources.

On 21 February 2022, the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, presented the reform of the Luxembourg Business Registers (LBR)*.

The Ministries of Culture and Justice, in collaboration with the Prison Administration, are pleased to launch the call for projects Access to Culture – Culture in prison.

The transition from prison to life in freedom is often very complex. For the people concerned, leaving prison is accompanied by a large number of trials, whether it be the re-establishment of family, friendship and social ties, the search for a job or the search for accommodation.

Interview with Sam Tanson in Delano

On 2 September 2021, the Minister for Family Affairs and Integration, Corinne Cahen, the Minister for Home Affairs, Taina Bofferding, and the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, presented the changes for the 2023 municipal elections.

Luxembourg's AML/CFT system is currently being evaluated as part of the 4th round of mutual evaluations by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

On January 15th, 2021, Sam Tanson hosted a videoconference with her counterparts of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain to discuss access to cross-border e-evidence in criminal matters and electronic data retention.

The Ministers of Justice of Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and their representatives in the presence of the Minister of Justice of Germany, President of the Council of the European Union express their shock at the violent terrorist attacks in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on Friday 16 October and in Nice on Thursday 29 October.

The Government in council of 4 May 2020 approved a derogation to article 75 of the Civil Code allowing the civil registrar to celebrate marriages in a municipal building other than the town hall. Civil partnership declarations can take place at the same locations.