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Book Title: Research Handbook on EU Criminal Law
Editor(s): Mitsilegas, Valsamis; Bergström, Maria; Konstadinides, Theodore
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN (hard cover): 9781783473304
Section: Chapter 2
Section Title: The institutional framework
Author(s): Labayle, Henri
Number of pages: 20
Abstract/Description:
The definition of an appropriate institutional framework has always been a challenge for the Member States of the European Union willing to fight together against crime. It was always a particular object of tensions for the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). Member States have therefore explored several different avenues, for over 25 years, until the stabilization brought about by the Treaty of Lisbon. This experiment allowed them to overcome their hostility to using the framework and community working method expressed in the Schengen ‘laboratory’ in 1985. The pressure of events explains the importance of institutional debates. The wave of terrorist events in the 1970s and accelerated mutual assistance in criminal matters between Member States have opened the issue of construction of a ‘European judicial area’. Achieving a common area opened to free movement, from the mid-1980s, then extended reflections to the criminal dimension. The inter-governmental mechanism ‘coincides’ with a Community objective, relating to the Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement (CISA) of 19 June 1990, which has so far failed to be enrolled in the institutional framework of common EU law. The Schengen experience created a unique bridge between classical international law and Community law. Indeed, it showed a desire for Member States to ‘complete’ the integration of the provisions of the European Convention on Extradition, the Benelux Treaty and the European Convention on the Transfer of Proceedings in Criminal Matters of 1983.
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