EULEX implements its mandate through its Monitoring and Operations Support Pillars.

Through its Case Monitoring Unit, the Monitoring Pillar conducts an impartial and robust monitoring of selected cases, which covers the entire chain of criminal justice, as well as civil justice cases on property and privatization issues, with a particular focus on monitoring of politically sensitive cases, cases of a sensitive inter-ethnic nature, cases of sexual gender based violence (SGBV), or other human rights aspects, including alleged police misconduct.

The Monitoring Pillar also focuses its monitoring activities on selected cases which were dealt with by EULEX under its executive mandate that ended in mid-June 2018 and were later handed over to the local judiciary.

Through the monitoring, mentoring and advising activities of its Correctional Unit, the Monitoring Pillar monitors and supports the Kosovo Correctional Service (KCS) in consolidating a professional management team and helping build up capacities in providing rehabilitation of prisoners, and countering undue interference and preferential treatment of prisoners. EULEX Correctional Unit also assists the Kosovo Probation Service (KPS) to develop a structured approach to the rehabilitation of probationers with a focus on the prevention of re-offending.

EULEX provides support on the ground to the KCS and the KPS through a continued presence of EULEX staff in correctional facilities and regional probation offices, in order to monitor the treatment of vulnerable and high-profile prisoners and probationers, mainly from non-majority communities.

Through EULEX’s Police Advisors in northern Kosovo, the Mission supports stability by monitoring and advising Kosovo Police’s Region North Directorate and the four police stations under its command on a number of issues related to the provision of community policing services and with the aim of building trust among the population and promoting stability.

Operational functions are undertaken by the Mission’s Operations Support Pillar, which maintains a limited residual capability as Kosovo’s second security responder, where Kosovo Police is the first security responder, EULEX is the second, and the NATO-led KFOR mission is the third security responder.

EULEX also supports the Kosovo Police in the field of international police cooperation by facilitating the exchange of information between the Kosovo Police and Interpol, Europol or the Serbian Ministry of Interior.

The Mission also assists the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office by providing logistic and operational support in line with relevant Kosovo legislation.

In addition, EULEX forensic experts continue to work shoulder to shoulder with their local counterparts at the Institute of Forensic Medicine and other relevant institutions to shed light on the fate of missing persons, by offering expertise and advice in the identification of potential clandestine graves and the exhumation and identification of victims from the Kosovo conflict.

EULEX continues to provide technical support to the implementation of relevant agreements of the EU-facilitated Dialogue on normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Last but not least, the Mission continues to manage its own witness protection programme.