Criminal Justice Platform Europe – International Seminar
3 December 2015, Brussels.
Criminal Justice Platform Europe – International Seminar on the implementation of the Framework Decisions 2008/909/JHA, 2008/947/JHA and 2009/829/JHA
Many European national governments have detention issues high on their agenda and have to deal with budget cuts, overcrowding and recidivism rates. Each year tens of thousands of EU citizens are prosecuted for alleged crimes or convicted in another EU Member State. The Framework Decisions are a package of coherent and complementary legislation that addresses the issue of detention of EU citizens in other Member States. They have the potential to reduce pre-trial detention, overcrowding (improving at the same time detention conditions) and to facilitate social rehabilitation of prisoners.
Framework Decisions are binding and have to be implemented by Member States. But the national authorities have to choose the form and method of implementation. Non-implementation of the Framework Decisions is problematic since those Member States who have properly implemented cannot benefit from their co-operation provisions in their relations with those Member States that have not properly and timely implemented.
Currently, respectively 25 (909), 22 (947), 19(829) Member States have transposed the Framework Decisions. As of 1 December 2014 the Commission as well as Member States are entitled to launch infringement proceedings against those Member States that have not implemented at the EU Court of Justice.
The Criminal Justice Platform Europe (CJP) invites Members of European Parliament, European policy makers, representatives of the EU, Member States and Nongovernmental Organisations to receive an update on the implementation of the three Framework Decisions throughout Europe. The seminar will focus on:
status of implementation
actual use of the Framework Decisions
issues and concerns in the use of the Framework Decisions