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Editorial for Issue 1/2011

Editorial Guest Editorial for Eucrim 1-2011

1 January 2011 // english

Dear Readers, I feel very honoured that I have been asked to introduce this issue of eucrim. Having been appointed as Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) in February 2011, I will devote my full attention to creating a new vision for the office and its dedicated staff while taking into account its sound experience as an effective administrative investigative service. OLAF’s strengths of both contributing to prevention policies and conducting investigations will be developed by further improving OLAF’s operational efficiency and internal governance. The central topic of this eucrim issue is “implementation of legal instruments” – a point… Read more

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Editorial for Issue 2/2011
by Morten Kjaerum Morten Kjaerum

Editorial Guest Editorial for Eucrim 2-2011

1 January 2011 (updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago) // english

Dear readers, With the support of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the Hungarian government, under its six-month Presidency of the European Union, hosted a conference in March 2011 on “Protecting Victims in the EU: the Road Ahead.” The conference coincided with the ten-year anniversary of Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings, a decade that has seen legislative developments for victims “on paper” but which has suffered from a lack of concrete action for victims in practice in a number of EU Member States. As research by the FRA on vulnerable victim… Read more

Dr. Emmanouil Billis LL.M. Dr. Emmanouil Billis LL.M. / Panagiotis Gkaniatsos Panagiotis Gkaniatsos

Minors as Victims in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies The Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse and its Implementation in Greece

1 January 2011 // english

The article analyses the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse and its implementation in Greece, with particular focus on the challenges posed by modern information and communication technologies.

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Sabina Zgaga Sabina Zgaga

Rights of Victims in Slovenian Criminal Law According to the EU Framework Decision on the Standing of Victims in Criminal Proceedings

1 January 2011 // english

This article focuses on the rights of victims in Slovenian criminal law. The main questions here are whether Slovenia has fully implemented the EU Framework Decision of 15 March 2001 on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings, whether our legislation on victims poses any problems from the viewpoint of this framework decision, and whether Slovenian law offers any additional protection and rights to the victims.
Since the Republic of Slovenia became an independent state in 1991, there have been many changes to our criminal law. The Criminal Procedure Act (CPA) and Criminal Code (CC) first entered into force on 1st January 1995. Both have seen some amendments, and the entire criminal law (both substantive and procedural) was extensively altered after 2005 when numerous special acts were adopted (including the Witness Protection Act and the Act on Compensation of Victims of Violent Criminal Acts ) and a new Criminal Code-1 (CC-1) … Read more