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On 15 October 2019, the CJEU (Grand Chamber) further clarified its case law as to the conditions under which the surrender of a person sought by a EAW can be refused because standards of detention in the issuing state infringe the prohibition of inhuman or …

By judgment of 29 July 2019, the CJEU shared the opinion of Advocate General Yves Bot in case C-38/18 (criminal proceedings against Massimo Gambino and Shpetim Hyka), namely that Arts. 16 and 18 of Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, …

After having agreed on the legal framework of the interoperability of EU Information Systems designed for border/migration control and police/judicial cooperation (see eucrim 2/2019, p. 103), delegations from the Member States’ governments are now discussing further extensions. The Finnish Council Presidency continued discussions that …

During the EU-Asia Connectivity Forum held in Brussels on 27 September 2019, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced that the Commission recommended that the Council give green light to open negotiations with Japan on the transfer of Passenger Name Records (PNR). PNR are travel information data …

On 19 September 2019, the CJEU delivered a judgment dealing with the applicability and interpretation of the procedural rights directives in a situation where the judicial authorities of a Member State ordered a person be committed to a psychiatric hospital. The case (C-467/18 − …

Full access to justice is not guaranteed, at least not in an equal way, because defendants are often poorly informed or access to legal assistance is inadequate. This is one of the main results of a report issued by the European Union Agency for Fundamental …

On 27 September 2019, the European Commission published its implementation report on Directive 2013/48/EU on the right of access to a lawyer. The Directive is one of the six EU procedural rights directives that aim to harmonise safeguards of suspected or accused persons in criminal …

On 24 September 2019, the European Parliament’s LIBE committee backed the position, as agreed by the plenary before May’s European elections, on the proposed Regulation seeking prevention of the dissemination of online content promoting terrorism (for the EP’s resolution of 17 April 2019, see …

In September 2019, the coordinators of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) in the European Parliament officially decided to create a permanent subcommittee on tax and financial crime. The initiative was mainly propelled by the Greens/EFL Group, which feels that the new subcommittee is …

On 12 September 2019, the Commission presented its first evaluation report on Directive 2011/16/EU regarding administrative cooperation in the field of taxation. The Directive lays down rules and procedures for the cross-border exchange of tax information between the national tax administrations. The Directive has been …