Seminar 'Public Prosecution Services and the Rule of Law in Europe'
On Thursday 16 June, a seminar will be held on 'Public Prosecution Services and the Rule of Law in Europe' with the subtitle 'Conceptions and Misconceptions on the Required Level of Independence in a Transnational Context Conference theme and objective'.
About the seminar:
In various European countries, the precise role and position of public prosecutors have become the subject of heated discussions in recent years, the main issue being their required degree of independence. For most of these countries, it was the CJEU's decision 27 May 2019 in OG and PI that sparked the discussion. In these cases, it was decided that national prosecution services that are subject to directions from the executive branch, do not qualify as an ‘issuing judicial authority’ within the meaning of EU law and are therefore not authorised to issue a European arrest warrant (EAW). In other countries, such as the Netherlands, discussions on the independence of the Public Prosecution Service were already underway when the decision was issued by the CJEU. Debates on the matter are still ongoing in the various European jurisdictions, fuelled only further by post-OG and PI rulings dealing with similar questions on the competence of the public prosecutor in EU criminal matters.
The objective of this seminar is to take stock of the CJEU's line of case law regarding the independence of public prosecutors in the framework of criminal justice cooperation and its consequences so far, both in the specific context of cooperation in EAW cases, as well as with regard to other judicial cooperation mechanisms. To that end, the seminar will bring together legal scholars and practitioners from a variety of EU Member States and with backgrounds in criminal law, constitutional law and EU law.
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