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AG Gerard Hogan recommends that his colleagues on the Luxembourg judges’ bench no longer follow the judgement in Petruhhin (C-182/15 à eucrim 3/2016, 131). The AG explains the legal and practical difficulties in the application of the maxim in the Petruhhin judgment (Opinion in Case C-398/19 (BY - extradition to Ukraine)).

Euractiv and Statewatch reported that MEPs discussed plans to reform police cooperation tools, based on the Prüm legal framework, with independent experts at a meeting on 22 September 2020. A next-generation Prüm (dubbed “Prüm.ng”) is currently being discussed in Council working groups. The aim is …

At their video conference on 8 October 2020, the Home Affairs Ministers of the EU Member States continued discussions on a new European Police Partnership. They agreed that the existing security architecture should be improved in the following three areas:Applying new technologies, such as …

On 28 October 2020, the Commission launched an important initiative to strengthen cooperation and information exchange in the clearance of goods at the EU borders. The EU Single Window Environment will create a single portal to allow businesses to provide information related to their …

On 28 September 2020, the European Commission presented a new Customs Union Action Plan, setting out a series of measures to make EU customs smarter, more innovative, and more efficient. The Action Plan follows the announcement by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in …

Advocate General Bobek concludes that the fundamental principle of ne bis in idem, in conjunction with the right to free movement, precludes Member States from implementing a red notice issued by Interpol at the request of a third country and from restricting the freedom of movement of a citizen of the Union.

Business representatives and the EU and U.S. administrations have begun to think about the consequences of the CJEU’s judgment in Schrems II of July 2020 (--> eucrim 2/2020, pp. 98-99). In a joint press release of 10 August 2020, the European Commission and the …

On the eve of the CJEU’s judgment on the data retention rules in France, Belgium and the UK of 6 October 2020 (separate news item), more than 40 civil society organisations from 16 countries sent a joint letter to the Commission calling for …

On 6 October 2020, the Grand Chamber of the CJEU delivered its judgments on data retention concerning the British, French, and Belgian rules (Case C-623/17 (Privacy International), and Joined Cases C-511/18 (La Quadrature du Net and Others), C-512/18 (French …

On 28 October 2020, the Commission provided a comprehensive evaluation of Directive 2008/99/EC on the protection of the environment through criminal law. The Directive is the EU’s main instrument seeking effective protection of the environment and full application of the existing environmental EU legislation through …