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Examining the principle of mutual recognition in the EU legal order this volume asks whether the principle as developed in the internal market, can and should be applied in judicial cooperation in criminal matters in the area of freedom, security, and justice.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I Frame of Reference: Mutual Recognition in the Internal Market Context; 1 The Principle of Mutual Recognition as Judicial Impetus for the Free Movement Provisions; 2 The Development of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in the Secondary Legislation; 3 The Workability of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in the Internal Market; 4 Conclusions on the Principle of Mutual Recognition in the Internal Market; Part II Mutual Recognition in the EU Criminal Justice Area; 5 The Mutual Recognition Principle as Judicial Impetus for a Powerful and EU-Wide Application of the ne bis in idem Principle; 6 The Principle of Mutual Recognition as Legislative Impetus for Efficient Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters; 7 The Workability of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in Criminal Matters; 8 Conclusions on the Principle of Mutual Recognition in the EU Criminal Justice Area; Part III Mutual Recognition from a Cross-Policy Perspective: A Search into the Viability of the Internal Market Analogy; 9 The Introduction of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in Two Diverging, but Intertwined, Policy Areas; 10 The Mutual Recognition Mechanism: Object, Actors, Mechanism, and Characteristics; 11 The Workability of the Principle of Mutual Recognition; 12 General Conclusions; Bibliography
About the author
Christine Janssens holds a Master's degree in Law (Universiteit Antwerpen, 1999) and Criminology (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2007), an LLM in EU Law (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) and a Ph.D. in Law (Universiteit Antwerpen, 2011). She is currently a Legal Officer at Eurojust. Prior this this she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO), at the University of Antwerp where she performs research in the field of EU law, with an emphasis on EU criminal law and EU internal market law. Prior to that, she completed a traineeship at the European Commission's DG Justice and Home Affairs and worked as a legal counsel in an international company.
Summary
Examining the principle of mutual recognition in the EU legal order, this book takes a cross-policy approach to focus on the principle in the internal market and in the criminal justice area. It asks whether the principle of mutual recognition, as developed in relation to the free movement provisions (internal market), can equally be applied in judicial cooperation in criminal matters (the area of freedom, security, and justice), and if such a cross-policy application is desirable.
Divided into three parts, the book first looks at the way this principle functions in the internal market. Part II examines how the principle works in judicial cooperation in criminal matters, with the final part answering the book's central questions. In each part, further related questions are asked: What is the object of the principle of mutual recognition? Who are the main actors involved? How does the mechanism of mutual recognition operate (with an emphasis on the existing limits to mutual recognition)? How does mutual recognition relate to harmonization and to mutual trust? What is the relevance of equivalence requirements and the distribution of competence between the home (issuing) State and the host (executing) State? What are the main characteristics of the principle of mutual recognition? And is it a workable principle?
Through an in-depth analysis of the relevant Treaty provisions, EU legislation, EU case law, and EU policy documents, the book comes to the conclusion that a cross-policy application of the principle of mutual recognition is both feasible and desirable.
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The principle is now so engrained in policy development and practice that for the practitioner who comes across its operation ... this book is essential reading to understand the operation, practice, application and limitations of the measure.
