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This news items summarises the current state of play of negotiations on the planned e-evidence Regulation. Despite the very opposing starting points of the co-legislators, a compromise text could be reached on several issues.

In a judgment of 6 October 2021, the CJEU ruled on the question of the extent to which an executing authority may challenge the legal classification of an offence by the issuing authority in a category where double criminality is no longer to be examined.

On 6 October 2021, the CJEU delivered an important judgment on the implications of fundamental rights in the mutual recognition scheme. The case concerned the question of whether an executing authority may refuse the recognition of a financial penalty (on the basis of Framework Decision 2005/214/JI) if the issuing authority did not notify the decision to the person concerned in a language he/she understands.

Das Ministerium für Justiz, Europa und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Schleswig-Holstein und das Bundesamt für Justiz laden herzlich ein zum Europäischen Tag der Justiz 2021.

On 7 October 2021, the Justice Ministers of the EU Member States discussed the need for action on pre-trial detention and detention conditions in the EU. The discussion was based on a non-paper by the European Commission of 24 September 2021.

On 15 July 2021, the European Commission referred Italy to the CJEU for the country’s failure to comply with the requirements for the exchange of information on terrorism and serious crime cases in accordance with Council Decisions 2008/615/JHA and 2008/616/JHA – the so-called “Prüm Decisions”. …

On 2 September 2021, the CJEU declared the request for a preliminary ruling by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Trento, Italy inadmissible. The question of whether a German tax authority can issue EIOs without validation remains unanswered.