The European Criminal Policy Initiative (ECPI) is a an academic group of 14 criminal law professors from ten Member States of the European Union. It was founded in 2008 in Munich in order to analyse critically the criminal policy of the EU. In 2009 the group published a Manifesto on the European Criminal Policy, which is available for download. It contains basic principles which – if respected – guarantee a consistent and acceptable criminal policy in the EU. This Manifesto should serve as an evaluation tool that can be used to evaluate new proposals for European legislation with an influence on criminal law.
With the financial support of the European Commission, the European Criminal Policy Initiative is now able to provide an in-depth analysis of the previous and proposed legal acts aimed at harmonising the substantive criminal laws of the Member States and at the same time to develop principles for a European policy on criminal procedure.
Please find out more about our mission here. For more information about the members of the group please follow this link.