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The article examines the evolving role of victims in EU criminal law, highlighting the tension between the development of procedural cooperation mechanisms and the protection of individual rights.

The article examines the proposed European Protection Order (EPO) as a mutual recognition instrument aimed at ensuring continuous protection for victims of crime across EU Member States.

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…

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…

The article explores the transposition of Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA on combating racism and xenophobia into the Greek legal order and situates this process within the broader development of European criminal law as a hybrid and evolving field.

The article examines the UK Bribery Act 2010 as a major reform of corporate criminal law, replacing fragmented anti-corruption legislation with a comprehensive and far-reaching framework.

This article focuses on the different implementation solutions of mutual recognition framework decisions, based on a study of the first four framework decisions and their implementation in the Nordic Member States. The Lisbon Treaty changed the environment of EU criminal law and explicitly mentions mutual …

Dear Readers, In 1997, a group of researchers called upon by the European Commission presented guidelines for the improvement of the criminal law protection of the financial interests of the European Union. In addition to proposals for substantive-legal models, the draft − which was published in its final version as “Corpus Juris” in 2000 − contained a proposal for the establishment of an independent and decentrally organised European Public Prosecutor. As a member of the above-mentioned research group, I was glad to witness the shift from initial scepticism and widespread criticism of this bold and progressive idea by representatives of…

This article examines the judicial cooperation between Europe and Morocco in combatting organised crime and terrorism. Despite Morocco’s strategic role and its expertise in anti-drug and counter-terrorism efforts, there is currently no specific formal legal framework on the part of the European Union that governs …

Dear Readers, According to the Japanese scholar and art historian Kakuzō Okakura, “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” This call for gradual and prudent reform can serve as a guiding principle for judicial cooperation and is particularly well-suited to the role that our agency, Eurojust, plays. The current system of judicial cooperation and mutual recognition, and Eurojust, are, in the meantime, the grown-up children of the 1999 Tampere Programme. Decades of experience show that, in principle, they are working well. In matters of cooperation, this is illustrated by the experience gathered in our daily…