ALDE Hearing on Right of Defence

Video summary of the ALDE Hearing "Towards the harmonisation of European rules and practices on the right of defence"

Event dates: 18/10/07 to 19/10/07
Location: Room ASP 5G2 (18th Oct), room ASP 3G3 (19th Oct), European Parliament, Brussels

The objective of the Hearing is to discuss and analyse EU Member States enforced domestic legislation and praxis in relation to the safeguard of the rights of defence, especially in pre-trial criminal proceedings and in cases in which cross-borders elements are involved, with the goal to find grounds for European common minimum standards governing procedural law which could lead to ensure a uniform safeguard of fundamental human rights all over the EU.

Since the adoption of the Amsterdam Treaty and the subsequent European Council of Tampere in 1999, the EU has made great strides in promoting, through the application of the principle of mutual recognition, closer co-operation between police, prosecutors and judges in the fight against international crime (i.e. the adoption of the proposal for a European Arrest Warrant in June 2002). Yet the achievement of a common area of freedom, security and justice implies to ensure, in the same way, the full judicial protection of fundamental individual rights during criminal proceedings.

In spite of several initiatives launched by the European Commission (in particular the proposal for a framework decision covering the rights of suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union, presented on 28 April 2004 and whose adoption still depends on negotiations in the Council), this dimension is still far from being achieved.

Therefore it is important to bring together all stakeholders in order to generate an all-round discussion on the current state of play, with a special focus on cases in which cross-borders elements are involved or within a warrant of arrest framework, in order to identify the present obstacles as well as concrete measures which could be undertaken at European level with a view to guaranteeing a uniform level of protection of fundamental rights throughout the EU.


MEP's Concerned:
Sarah Ludford

For more information:
Rasmussen Anders - Tel: +32 2 284 14 93
Marzocchi Ottavio - Tel: +32 2 284 39 95

On ALDE Website:
http://www.alde.eu/index.php?id=42&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=8951

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