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| Â | SCADPlus: European Public Prosecutor |
 | | The European Public Prosecutor would be appointed by the Council, acting by a qualified majority with the assent of the European Parliament on the basis of a list of candidates provided by the Commission, for a non-renewable term of six years. | | | Action by the Prosecutor would be subject to review by the national courts responsible for enforcing compliance with fundamental rights and freedoms. | | | There would be synergies between the European Public Prosecutor's investigation resources and instruments currently being developed for judicial cooperation in Europe ( European arrest warrant) on the basis of mutual recognition of investigation instruments existing in the national systems (searches and seizures, for example). |
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| Â | European Union FAQ |
| | Commenting on what he called a "test case of national importance", the presiding judge, District Judge Bruce Morgan, said that we now operate under a "new legal order" in that the 1972 European Communities Act intentionally surrendered Parliament's sovereignty to the primacy of European law and the European courts. | | | The competence of the existing European Court of Justice was extended and the Council of Ministers given powers to impose penalties on any member state found "in persistent breach of the Treaty". | | | But, as the late Lord Tonypandy recalls "The politically motivated European Court of Justice instructed us that our Fisheries Act was illegal. |
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| Â | Response to the Report of the Evaluation Group to the Committee of Ministers on the European Court of Human Rights |
| | It is clear that the European Public Prosecutor must act with full respect for fundamental rights as secured by Article 6 of the Union Treaty, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. | | | The European Public Prosecutor should also be subject to the principle of equity and to compliance with the law as regards the fact that his conclusions must be based solely on the valid evidence before him. | | | Protection for the citizen should be built into the procedures followed by the Public Prosecutor at the earliest possible stage; it should be borne in mind that the unfortunate victim can spend months in custody before the issue of sufficient evidence to commit to trial can be judicially decided. |
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| Â | FREEDOM IN JEOPARDY THE CASE AGAINST THE EU AND SUPRANATIONALISM |
| | European Court of Justice - Not an independent judiciary or check on the legislative or executive, but a political court to enforce the several treaties/EU Constitution (i.e. | | | Common Market, 1973 - Section 2 of the European Communities Act (the enabling legislation to enter into the Common Market) set down the principle that British Law would always from then on be subordinate to European Law; that, when the two conflicted, it would be the European and not the British Law that would prevail. | | | It is the European Court that will decide what is both "necessary" and what exactly constitutes the "general interest". |
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| Â | Encyclopedia4U - Treaty of Nice - Encyclopedia Article |
| | The Treaty provided for the creation of subsidiary courts below the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance to deal with special areas of law such as patents. | | | The European Parliament threatened to pass a resolution against the Treaty -- although it has no formal power of veto, the Italian Parliament threatened that it would not ratify without the European Parliament's support. | | | A compromise was reached, which provided for a double majority of Member States and votes cast, and in which a Member State could optionally request verification that the countries voting in favour represented a sufficient proportion of the Union's population. |
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| Â | The Treaty of Nice: The Sharing of Power and the Institutional Balance in the European Union - A Continental Perspective |
| | The European Parliament wishes to secure the right to dismiss individual Commissioners through an appeal process before the European Court of Justice. | | | As regards the judicial system, the European Parliament demands the right to bring an action before the Court of Justice on the grounds of misuse of powers, lack of competence, infringement of a substantial procedural requirement, breach of the Treaty and any rule of law relating to its application, or failure to act. | | | The European Parliament calls on the IGC to incorporate the Charter of Fundamental Human Rights into the treaty, to permit the EU's accession to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and to allow direct access to the Court of Justice for any EU citizen acting individually. |
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| | This would consist mainly in the European Parliament’s assent supporting the appointment procedure proposed by the Commission, and in the use of the Co-decision procedure as regards the terms and conditions under which the European Prosecutor will perform his/her duties. | | | In her opinion, this process should start at the political level, discussing the necessity for such a step to be taken and after, the article 280 EC treaty or a new article should be used as the legal basis in order to create the European Prosecutor. | | | He further pointed out the positive position of Belgium in relation to the establishment of the European Prosecutor, and on the judicial cooperation in criminal matters as such. |
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| Â | EPIC Advisory Board |
| | Professor Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property law and data privacy law, with particular focus on computer software and digital works and on the intersection of copyright, privacy, and the First Amendment in cyberspace. | | | Wolfson was at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he successfully litigated Gredinger v. | | | Professor Bignami teaches European Union law, administrative law, and comparative public law. |
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| Â | A SCEPTICAL INTRODUCTION to the EUROPEAN UNION |
| | Corpus Juns would also introduce detention without trial, since under this continental system, a person suspected of an offence can be arrested and held in custody for a period of six months or more, pending such further investigations and enquiries as the public prosecutor sees fit, before being brought before a court. | | | The only control is a judicial one exercised by the European Court of Justice which is limited to deciding whether or not it has acted in accordance with its very wide powers. | | | The European Commission and the European Parliament are pressing for the imposition of a uniform legal system throughout the EU known as Corpus Juris. |
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| Â | Convention divided over proposal to create an EU public prosecutor |
| | Several speakers underlined that the Justice and Home Affairs issues are very important for the European public opinion which expects more effectiveness from the EU in the fight against cross-border crime and illegal immigration. | | | The Convention on the future of Europe debated the draft articles on the area of freedom, security and justice at its plenary session on 3 April. | | | a post of European public prosecutor is to be created within Eurojust (the judicial component of Europol) to tackle cross-border crime and fraud; |
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http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe?targ=1&204&OIDN=1505132
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| Â | Euro Know - Letters |
| | Multiple jeopardy will also be introduced so that if an accused person is tried and the European Public Prosecutor does not get the verdict he wants there will be a further trial or trials until the "right" verdict is obtained. | | | The United Kingdom is the only country in the EU that has trial by jury, which will be abolished by Corpus Juris, along with Habeus Corpus, and the presumption of innocence. | | | The EU has secretly developed a new legal code that will turn the member states of the EU into a single judicial area controlled by a "European Public Prosecutor". |
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| Â | DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT |
| | These plans envisaged that a European Public Prosector (EPP) would be able to investigate and prosecute cases throughout the "single legal area" of the EU. | | | A European Warrant of arrest shall be issued by a national judge on “instructions” of the EPP, and any police force in any member State can be required to enforce it. | | | Lord Williams of Mostyn.: the Government notes that, although the European Parliament welcomed Corpus Juris as a possible example for future development, it said that it was not seeking the creation of a European Criminal Code. |
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| | Antonio Vitorino, Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA), touched on the relationship between the European Public Prosecutor and Eurojust at a public forum on the topic held on 16-17 September in Brussels. | | | The Green Paper further discusses: the status and organisation of the Prosecutor; the offences over which there would be jurisdiction; procedural law; judicial review of his/her activities; and relationships with third entities (including third countries). | | | Discussing how the creation of the European Public Prosecutor would interact with existing EU institutions, the Paper suggests that it would be complementary to entities such as Europol, Eurojust, the European Judicial Network, and OLAF. |
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| Â | Assemblée nationale - Conférence des Parlements de l'UE contre le blanchiment |
| | As pertains to the European arrest warrant, might I remind you that the European Parliament spoke out on this topic, when the vote occurred on 29 November. | | | The idea is certainly worthy of further study, but we must also specify operating terms, a timetable for its creation and details about its environment, while also describing our expectations of such an institution from a judiciary standpoint and its relationship to the European Court of Justice. | | | This shows that it is technically possible to initiate the European Public Prosecutor, without creating European jurisdictions. |
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| Â | edverb.com |
| | The American public clearly does not appreciate false evidence being passed off as fact, and it would be a terrible injustice if the sin of presenting forged evidence applies only to the President's critics, but not to the President himself. | | | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. | | | Similarly, a forged document was presented as evidence to a believing public, and used by the President of the United States, as part of a phony justification for war in Iraq. |
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http://www.edverb.com/
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| Â | Justice and Home Affairs in an Enlarged European Union |
| | The Amsterdam Treaty and the follow-up documents mark an important stage in Justice and Home Affairs but many systems for cooperation in law enforcement cooperation and mutual legal assistance were already in place before 1998. | | | In this process the candidate members can be represented as passive recipients of EU arrangements - no modification of matters such as the Schengen acquis is available to them. | | | a decisive move towards federalisation of aspects of JHA with a European public prosecutor and executive police powers for Europol, with all the legal implications both would involve |
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http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/981500-313?targ=1&204&OIDN=250060&-home=analys
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| Â | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Q&A: the European constitution |
| | The Giscard d'Estaing draft promised "a Europe with a single currency, common justice, a Europe [with] its own defence." In more specific terms, it proposed replacing the rotating EU presidency with full time president; deciding some tax and immigration issues by majority vote; an EU foreign minister, and the creation of a European public prosecutor. | | | Keen US allies, they may find common ground with Britain on limiting, or opposing, a common foreign or defence policy decided by majority vote. | | | Ireland shares Britain's opposition to giving up its veto on social security and judicial matters. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,1092918,00.html
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| Â | Weblog Archive |
| | In a curious e-mail today titled "MPAC Meets with Secretary of State Colin Powell—Here's Why" the Muslim Public Affairs Council justifies its willingness to meet yesterday with America's chief diplomat.... | | | While they agree on many issues – impeding counterterrorism efforts and forwarding an Islamist vision of America in particular – they also differ in some ways.... | | | In addition to endorsing Islamist organizations, the Department of State promotes on its website "the world of the Palestinians" to an English-speaking public ("a world vaster, and far richer, than the one portrayed on evening news broadcasts"). |
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| Â | CNN.com - Belgium to push European integration - July 2, 2001 |
| | It will press for a uniform European policy on the issuing of visas. | | | The Belgian presidency, which plans a European conference on migration, also promises greater efforts against those who deal in trafficking people. | | | There will be no settling of the future European constitution during the Belgian presidency. |
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http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/29/oakley.presidency/
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| Â | ERA - Conferenze - European Public Prosecutor for the Protection of the Financial Interests of the Community |
| | Judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers, public servants, NGOs, academics. | | | The Trier Conference, supported by the Anti-Fraud Office of the European Commission, will focus on the important constitutional and criminal law questions raised by the Green Paper, in the context of latest developments in the fields of harmonisation of criminal law and mutual recognition of judicial decisions (such as the European Arrest Warrant). | | | Combating fraud against the financial interests of the European Communities has always been an important priority, but using criminal law as an essential tool in this fight is a relatively recent proposal, first elaborated by a group of independent experts (Corpus Juris) and backed by the European Parliament as well as the Commission. |
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| Â | EUROPA - OLAF - Green Book |
| | The homepage of the European Parliament, directly elected by all European citizens. | | | The webpage of the Budgetary Control Committee of the European Parliament. | | | Links to the websites of OLAF's partner services and agencies in Europe and world-wide. |
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| Â | EUobserver.com |
| | This new legal body would be based in Brussels, dealing with serious crimes affecting more than one European Union member state, reports the Ananova. | | | There is no question of the British government giving legal sovereignty to a judge in Brussels, a government spokesperson told the Ananova. | | | "There are some encouraging proposals coming out of the Convention in the area of justice and home affairs, but we cannot support this proposal to set up a European public prosecutor," he said. |
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http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?sid=9&aid=10584
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| Â | Centre for European Reform |
| | Katinka Barysch, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think-tank, said the figures needed to be treated with caution. | | | It was difficult to distinguish between those who were working in Britain before enlargement and those who had arrived after the labour market was opened to people from accession states, she said. | | | But the way the European Commission conducts these policies is coming under attack. |
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| Â | Benjamin B. Ferencz - Articles and Lectures |
| | International Law As We Enter the 21st Century - Final Chapter, Edited by the European Law Students Association, January 2002, Berlin. | | | Ferencz Call to Action for an ICC – Letter, March 29, 2002 | | | A Prosecutor's Personal Account - Nuremberg to Rome - Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Spring 1999 |
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| Â | Resources for Graduate Students |
| | Georgia Criminal Lawyer : Atlanta, Georgia criminal lawyer and former Federal Prosecutor, | | | Multilingual Medical Terms - Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages. | | | Changes in the Fifth Edition of the APA Publication Manual |
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| | In-depth coverage of the various forms and treatments of hepatitis Read More | | | The 9/11 Commission Report dominates the agenda these days on Capitol Hill and the airwaves in the public debate over the restructuring of the intelligence community (IC). |
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| Â | MBR: Internet Bookwatch, December 2003 |
| | The Respectful School is a very practical and empathetic manual which is a very strongly recommended addition to academic Education Library reference collections and for public educators charged with the responsibility for creating and maintaining a functionally effective "learning friendly" school environment - public or private! | | | This unprecedented establishment came to be during the American Gilded Age, a time when corporate greed ran rampant and political altruism seemed almost extinct. | | | Myths about the inception of Yellowstone National Park have persevered and found an enduring public acceptance, but the true story of the individuals behind the park's creation is actually one of flawed human beings with their own competing motives, and not necessarily pure-hearted conservational philosophies. |
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