Munich Postgraduate Seminar in January 2013
From January 23rd to 26th, 2013, the ECPI welcomed around 30 international guests to engage in a discussion on European criminal policy. The meeting was started off with a postgraduate seminar for postgraduate (doctoral) students who devote their studies to…
EuCLR 2012 Issue 3 Available
The third issue of the EuCLR 2012 is now available. In this issue, Johan Boucht discusses the cross-border use of police powers within the EU. He discusses how European instruments to facilitate law enforcement cooperation (i.e. information exchange and operational…
ECPI Stockholm Meeting in November 2012
For their last meeting in 2013, Stockholm University and the Ragnar Söderberg stiftelse invited the ECPI to Sweden. The group continued the work on the principles for the manifesto on judicial cooperation in Europe and prepared its first postgraduate seminar…
ECPI Stockholm Meeting in September 2012
The ECPI were once again hosted by Stockholms universitet for their third meeting of 2013 which took place in early September. The group discussed the proposed new Directive on the protection of the EU’s financial interests and its efforts to…
EuCLR 2012 Issue 2 Available
The second issue of the EuCLR 2012 is now available and includes a practioner’s view on the last 25 years of criminal law legislation at the EU institutions and various reports from Member States as to how European criminal policy and jurisprudence affects their criminal justice systems.
Commission proposes Directive on the Protection of the EU’s Financial Interests
On July 11th, the Commission proposed a Directive on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial interests by means of criminal law (COM 2012(363) final). The Union thereby takes the protection of its financial interests to a new (supranational) level. The proposed framework shall in the future replace the regime of the so called PIF Convention and its Protocols. The proposal is based on Art. 325 (4) TFEU and does not only the fight of fraudulent conduct but also extends to money laundering, misappropriation of funds, corruption and providing false information in a public procurement or grant procedure. For the first time, the proposed Directive introduces minimum penalties.
ECPI Stockholm Meeting in June/July 2012
The ECPI meet again from June 29th to July 1st for their second session on the premises of the University of Stockholm. At this meeting, the group focused entirely on debating various proposals for their future manifesto on principles for criminal procedure.
European Parliament passes a resolution on EU criminal law
In its plenary session of May 21st, 2012, the European Parliament passed an „EU approach to criminal law“ and and called for observing general principles of criminal law by taking recourse to and expressly mentioning the European Criminal Policy Initiative.
ECPI Stockholm Meeting in March 2012
The members of the ECPI met in Stockholm in March 2012 for a kick-off meeting regarding the development of general principles for approximating the laws of criminal procedure. Based on their experiences with the first manifesto and the respective comments and suggestions the group received from scholars and legal practitioners, the group developed a general framework for assessing and formulating these principles, which are all part of the law of the European Union. This framework will ensure a comprehensive analysis of these principles and at the same time allow for applying them to concrete policy proposals.
EuCLR 2012 Issue 1 available
The latest issue of EuCLR is now available. In their contributions, the authors discuss a variety of topics, inter alia the principle of mutual recognition as a utilitarian solution, procedural safeguards in EU law, the European Arrest Warrent and its interpretation and developing tendencies of criminal law and criminal procedure in Austria.