Council of Europe Cooperation in Criminal Matters as a Normative Backdrop to European Union Criminal Law Cooperation
At a European inter-state level, both the Council of Europe and the European Union (EU) have developed cooperation in criminal matters between European jurisdictions. Although the EU represents a deeper form of integration and cooperation in legal terms than does the Council of Europe, the EU also has to date preferred a looser 'intergovernmental' means of cooperation in police and criminal matters, as compared to the degree of integration of the common market. This reluctance to integrate, to a greater degree, national systems of criminal law is reflected in the relatively limited nature of the pre-existing Council of Europe framework of instruments in the field. This article seeks to illustrate this point through an assessment of three of the most relevant Council of Europe instruments - the European Convention of Human Rights, the Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, and the Convention on Extradition - in the light of recent EU developments.
Journal/Publisher: Denning Law Journal, 19
Publication type: Article
Number of pages/Page range: 123 - 148
Language/s (content): English
Date of publication: 01-07-07
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