Download or read book The UK s 2014 Block Opt Out Decision written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 1 December 2014, the UK will cease to be bound by around 110 EU police and criminal justice measures which are subject to the UK's block opt-out.1 At the same time, the Government proposes that the UK should rejoin 35 of these measures which it considers to be in the UK's national interest. Both Houses of Parliament have endorsed the Government's decision to exercise the UK's block opt-out. The debate and vote in the House of Commons took place on 15 July 2013. Should the Government want to avoid a gap in the application of these 35 measures to the UK, proceedings in Parliament and the necessary decisions at EU level to confirm UK participation in the 35 measures must be completed no later than 1 December 2014 or, in the event of delay, necessary transitional measures would have to be agreed by that date. The purpose of this Report is to inform the forthcoming debate and vote in the House of Commons by providing a brief guide to the block opt-out and an update on the latest developments concerning the measures the Government proposes to seek to rejoin

Download or read book The Eurojet Regulation Should the UK Opt In HL 66 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report considers the question whether the UK should opt in to the negotiation of the proposed Regulation reforming Eurojust. The proposal, which was published in July, seeks to reform Eurojust's governance and management, the nature of its powers and to provide for its accountability. It was brought forward by the Commission alongside the proposal to create a new European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO). Both proposals include provisions weaving the two bodies together. Another report inviting the House to issue a Reasoned Opinion challenging the proposed EPPO on the grounds of subsidiarity, has been published alongside the present report. Under the EU Treaties the UK is entitled to opt-in to the negotiation of Justice and Home Affairs legislation such as this proposed Regulation reforming Eurojust. It is acknowledged that the interweaving of the two bodies complicates the question of whether the UK should opt in to the negotiation of the Eurojust Regulation but nonetheless it is recommended that the Government should opt in, given the important work undertaken by Eurojust and, in light of the provisions dealing with the proposed EPPO, the need for the UK to participate in the negotiations in order to improve the Regulation

Download or read book Research Handbook on EU Criminal Law written by Valsamis Mitsilegas and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EU criminal law is one of the fastest evolving, but also challenging, policy areas and fields of law. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and advanced analysis of EU criminal law as a structurally and constitutionally unique policy area and field of research. With contributions from leading experts, focusing on their respective fields of research, the book is preoccupied with defining cross-border or ‘Euro-crimes’, while allowing Member States to sanction criminal behaviour through mutual cooperation. It contains a web of institutions, agencies and external liaisons, which ensure the protection of EU citizens from serious crime, while protecting the fundamental rights of suspects and criminals. Students and scholars of EU criminal law will benefit from the comprehensive research present in this Handbook. National and EU policy-makers, as well as judges, defence lawyers and human rights lawyers will find the analysis of current legal action, combined with proposed solutions, useful to their work

Download or read book HC 219 I European Scrutiny Commission First Report of 2014 15 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Third report of session 2013 14 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HL 6 Report on 2013 14 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an overview of the work of the European Union Committee in session 2013-14. It highlights some of the key policies examined through scrutiny work and inquiries, reflects on the Committee's work with the EU institutions and other national parliaments, and gives a forward look at the work being undertaken in session 2014-15.

Download or read book HC 219 xxvii Twenty eighth Report of Session 2014 15 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on 2012 13 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an overview of the work of the European Union Committee in session 2012-13. It highlights some of the key policies examined through scrutiny work and inquiries, reflects on the Committee's work with thie EU institutinos and other national parliaments, and gives a forward look at the work being undertaken in session 2013-14.

Download or read book House of Commons European Scrutiny Home Affairs and Justice Committees The Government s Response to the Committee s Reports on the 2014 Block Opt Out Decision HC 1177 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint response to HC 978, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215066169); HC 954, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215066091); and HC 972, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215066152). These were in turn Government responses to the European Scrutiny Committee's 21st report, HC 683, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215063465); the Home Affairs Committee's 9th report, session 2013-14, HC 615, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215063410); and the Justice Committee's 8th report, HC 605, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215063403) respectively

Download or read book House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee HC 683 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an assessment of each of the 129 measures subject to the United Kingdom's block opt-out, including the European Arrest Warrant. This is an area of policy which is highly legally complex and politically sensitive. Yet the Government has failed to provide the information Parliament needs to scrutinise these measures properly. There are two sets of conclusions in the Report: first, the Committee asks detailed follow-up questions on a number of the measures in question, including the European Arrest Warrant. Second, the Government's overall approach is thoroughly analysed. The Committee sees signs of incoherence in Government policy - probably a consequence of coalition politics - and observes that several of the explanations for the 35 measures the Government wants to rejoin appear to have been written as if the Government was not intending to rejoin them, and vice versa. The Committee concludes that the House must be given the opportunity to vote on each of the measures the Government proposes to rejoin before formal negotiations with the European Commission and Council begin

Download or read book EU Police and Criminal Justice Measures written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report EU Police and Criminal Justice Measures: The UK's 2014 Op-out Option (HL 159) examines the consequences to the UK should the Government choose to opt-out of approximately 130 EU police and criminal justice measures, that were adopted before the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009. The European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is the single most important pre-Lisbon police and criminal justice measure and, if the Government decides to exercise the opt-out, the Committee recommends that it should opt back in to the EAW immediately, to avoid any gap in its application. The Committee also expresses particular concern about the potential impact that the opt-out, including the loss of the EAW, could have on efforts by the UK and Ireland to effectively tackle cross-border crime, and does not believe that possible alternatives to the EAW would be adequate. The Committee concludes that the Government has not made a convincing case to opt-out and that to do so would h

Download or read book House of Lords European Union Committee Follow Up Report on EU Police and Criminal Justice Measures The UK s 2014 Opt Out Decision HL 69 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report concludes that the Government should seek to rejoin the 35 measures that have already been identified, but that it should also seek to rejoin an additional set of measures: implementing measures related to Europol's continued operation; the Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law; the European Judicial Network; the European Probation Order; and the Convention of Driving Disqualifications. The Government has still not dealt with earlier reports' conclusions about the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and its jurisdiction. What is more, the Government's general approach to the CJEU is not consistent with its decision to opt back into many other post-Lisbon police and criminal justice measures. The Government also needs to work flexibly with the European Commission in order to avoid any gaps in the application of the measures the UK will seek to rejoin. For example, we must ensure that rejoining the European Arrest Warrant is water-tight well in advance of the opt-out taking effect, to prevent problems for our criminal justice system. The report also recommends that the Government conduct a review of the impact of the opt-out decision three years after it has taken effect, and report its conclusions to Parliament

Download or read book HC 918 Scrutiny Reform Follow Up And Legacy Report written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Committee published the Scrutiny Reform Report 18 months ago asked the Government to ensure that it responded to the Report within the customary two-month deadline. This did not happen, the Government response was received on the day the House rose for the summer recess, 22 July 2014, eight months after the Report's publication. Moreover, the tone of the Government's response to the key recommendations was overwhelmingly negative and did not sufficiently address our proposals, including those relating to the introduction of a form of national veto and the disapplication of EU law. In this Report the Committee first consider in more detail the background to, possible causes of and the implications of the Government's failure to schedule EU document debates, before turning to some of the other outstanding issues covered in the Scrutiny Reform Report, in particular papers deposit, limitâ documents, and the coverage of EU scrutiny and wider EU issues by the BBC. The Committee also sets out some outstanding scrutiny issues which the successor Committee may wish to consider, in particular scrutiny of the proposed EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Download or read book Strategic Guidelines for the EU s Next Justice and Home Affairs Programme Steady as She Goes HL 173 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of the Stockholm Programme (2010-2014) and recommendations for the successor JHA programme.

Download or read book HL 5 Investigative Select Committees in the 2010 15 Parliament written by The Stationery Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thirty third Report of Session 2012 13 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HL 66 The United Kingdom s participation in Prum written by The Stationery Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 26 November 2015 the Home Secretary announced, by means of a Written Ministerial Statement, the Government's intention to invite both Houses of Parliament to agree that the United Kingdom should rejoin the Prèm Decisions. These are two Council Decisions1 under which the police forces of EU Member States are able automatically to share DNA, fingerprint and vehicle registration data. The Government has also invited the two Houses to agree that the United Kingdom rejoin the Framework Decision on the accreditation of forensic service laboratories, 2 which recognises the validity of DNA and fingerprint analyses from other Member States and is necessary for participation in the Prèm Decisions. Although at the time of writing a motion had not been tabled, the Committee understanding is that there will be a debate in the House of Commons on 8 December, and in the House of Lords on 9 December. The purpose of this Report, is to assist the House, both by presenting the background to the debate in a more succinct and accessible format than the Government has provided, and by putting on the record the view of the European Union Committee on why the UK should rejoin the Prèm Decisions. It is clear to the Committe that the major benefit of fully implementing Prèm is that the initial automated exchange of data relating to criminal investigation, enabling targeted follow-up action, would solve more crimes more quickly, would identify international criminals and volume crime more effectively, and would build up intelligence relevant to the investigation of very serious crime, including terrorism. The recent increase in the level of the terrorist threat underlines the critical importance of realising these benefits, in order to protect the people of the United Kingdom more effectively.