EU law is a separate legal framework, different from international law, and integrated into the legal systems of the Member States. The Union's legal framework is based on autonomous legal sources. Different nature of these sources requires the introduction of a hierarchy among them. At the top...

Extradition is one of the issues that Europe was committed from the outset, so the first convention about this issue was made in 1957 by the Council of Europe. The European arrest warrant was established by an EU framework decision in 2002. With the ratification of the Council Framework Decision...

The European Union aims to ensure that people live in an area of freedom, security and justice, without internal boundaries. Europeans need to feel confident that, wherever they move within Europe, their freedom and their security are well protected, in full compliance with the Union's values,...

The objective is to provide information, guidance and advice to practitioners on the formation of joint investigation teams (JITs). It was developed by the JITs Network - in cooperation with Eurojust, Europol and OLAF - and enhances the previous JITs manual in light of the acquired practical...

The formation of a punitive policy is a historic process that arises in the first state-run societies of Sumer and Assyro-Babylonia and develops simultaneously with the improvement of political and state organization. Outstanding merit for the formation of modern criminal policy, criminal law...

Since 2012, more than 145 Eurojust cases dealt with Italian mafia-type OCGs, such as Cosa Nostra, Camorra and ‘Ndrangheta. The casework at Eurojust confirms the transnational dimension of the Italian mafia-type OCGs, which over the years have consolidated their global partnerships with other...

The interaction and exchange of information between the national police of the organization on Schengen territory is much more than the scope of the subordination from the international organization for police cooperation, the co-ordination of the point-by-point contact in the framework of a...

The European Seascape of the Restricted Area (ERA) and the decision of the Council of Europe of the European Union (2002/584 / TAC) from 13 June 2002, was published in the Official Gazette of the European Community for 18 July 2002. European arrest warrant is in charge of the European Union...

In Europe, it is difficult to solve problems with international cooperation between various organizations and institutions, and is especially relevant. That places a question for coordination and interaction between the law enforcement structures, and sometimes hampers the effectiveness of...

Programmes are combination of actions, specification by time-terms and executors and are directed towards achieving one or several goals. Thus, from program-targeting management’s point of view, programming is to define the expedience with the choice of one or another approach for maintaining...