EU Legislation
Agreement between the European Union and Japan on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters
The purpose of the Agreement is the mutual provision of legal assistance between EU Member States and Japan to establish more effective cooperation between the European Union Member States and Japan in the area of mutual legal assistance in criminal matters.
The present agreement offers a framework between the parties to mutually provide legal assistance. Mutual legal assistance covers all...
Council Decision 2009/902/JHA of 30 November 2009 setting up a European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN) and repealing Decision 2001/427/JHA
This Decision becomes the new legal basis for the EUCPN. The intergovernmental approach is strengthened compared to the previous instrument it replaces, namely Council Decision of 28 May 2001...
Council Framework Decision 2009/948/JHA of 30 November 2009 on prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings
This framework decision aims to improve judicial cooperation between European Union countries, so as to prevent unnecessary parallel criminal proceedings concerning the same facts and the same...
Council Framework Decision 2009/829/JHA of 23 October 2009 on the application, between Member States of the European Union, of the principle of mutual recognition to decisions on supervision measures as an alternative to provisional detention
This instrument lays down rules according to which one Member State recognises a decision on supervision measures issued in another Member State as an alternative to provisional detention....
Directive 2009/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 amending Directive 2005/35/EC on ship-source pollution and on the introduction of penalties for infringements
The purpose of Directive 2005/35/EC and of this Directive is to approximate the definition of ship-source pollution offences committed by natural or legal persons, the scope of their liability and...
Initiative of the Member States for a Council Framework Decision 2009/…/JHA of … on transfer of proceedings in criminal matters
Full title: Initiative of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Estonia, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the...
Proposal for a Council Framework Decision on the transfer of proceedings in criminal matters
This legislative proposal, submitted in June 2009 by 16 Member States (BE, BG, CZ, DK, EE, GR, ES, FR, LT, LV, HU, NL, RO, SI, SK, SE), aims at creating an explicit legal basis at EU level for the...