Eurojust
| European Union Agency for Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters Eurojust |
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 Logo of EUROJUST |
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 The building of the International Criminal Court and Eurojust in The Hague |
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| English name | European Union's Judicial Cooperation Unit |
| French name | Unité de coopération judiciaire de l'Union européenne |
| Dutch name | EU agency for justitiële samenwerking |
| Organization type | European Union Agency |
| Seat of the organs | The Hague , Netherlands |
| Chair | Michèle Coninsk |
| founding |
February 28, 2002 |
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Eurojust, the European Union Agency for Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters, is a judicial authority of the European Union based in The Hague . Eurojust has the status of an EU agency and coordinates cross-border criminal proceedings at European level. It is also intended to coordinate the work of Europe's national judicial authorities in the field of cross-border organized crime in general and to promote the exchange of information between national judicial and police authorities. Work areas include the fight against terrorism , the fight against and prevention of illicit arms trafficking , the drug trade , the trafficking , the child pornography and money laundering .
Legal basis
On the basis of an agreement of the European Council in Tampere in autumn 1999, Eurojust was founded by a decision of the Council of the European Union of February 28, 2002 and started its work a few months later. The legal basis for the decision was the provisions on police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters (the so-called third pillar ).
With the Lisbon Treaty , Eurojust was also expressly anchored in primary law ( Art. 85 TFEU ). In addition, the pillar structure was dissolved with this treaty, but there are transitional provisions for regulations of the previous third pillar that will only expire five years after the Treaty of Lisbon came into force. In addition, the Lisbon Treaty provides that, in the event of an agreement, the Member States can set up a European Public Prosecutor's Office based on Eurojust ( Art. 86 TFEU).
organization
The Member States each send a national member and alternate members to Eurojust. These members are usually national judicial officers or public prosecutors and also act as the link between Eurojust and the judicial system of the respective country. All of the national members form the Eurojust College . The college elects a president and two vice-presidents. In October 2017, the former Vice President and National Member for Slovakia, Ladislav Hamran, was elected President. Vice-Presidents have been Klaus Meyer-Cabri (Germany) since September 2016 and Filippo Spiezia (Italy) since December 2017.
The administration of Eurojust has been led by Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos (Greece) as Administrative Director since 1 July 2017 .
The work of Eurojust is complemented by that of the European Judicial Network .
Web links
- Eurojust on the official website of the European Union europa.eu
- official page
- Eurojust Decision 2001 (PDF)
- 2003 decision amending the Eurojust decision (PDF)
- 2009 decision amending the Eurojust decision (PDF)
- Eurojust Rules of Procedure (PDF; 103 KiB)
- Rules of procedure and rules of procedure of the Eurojust Joint Supervisory Body (PDF; 107 KiB)
- Eurojust and human trafficking (PDF)
literature
- Christian Trentmann: Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor's Office - On the right track? , Journal for the entire criminal law science (ZStW) 1/129 (2017), p. 108.
- Klaus Meyer-Cabri: Eurojust judicial authority as a center of cooperation , Deutsche Richterzeitung (DRiZ) 2019, pp. 122–125.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Articles 9 and 10 of the Protocol (No. 36) on the Transitional Provisions Consolidated Version of the Treaties
- ↑ Administration. EUROJUST, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
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