Transcript EUROJUST - Working with Liaison Magistrates, The EJN

Areas of Added Value
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Permanent Mutual Legal Assistance Network
Empowered MLA Network
Facilities - Casework Meetings & Conferences
Contact Points
Integrated Approach: Tackling Organised Crime
Voice Influencing Law-Makers & Others
Casework Examples
Permanent MLA Network
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Permanently Based in Premises in The Hague
25 National Members - always available
Clarity, Speed, and Certainty in MLA issues
Resources, staff and equipment
Eurojust has Legal Personality
Empowered Network
• Not just a list of people dealing with MLA
• Eurojust has special powers
• Use powers to ‘encourage’ better MLA
Eurojust’s Powers
• Power to request competent authorities :
– to investigate or prosecute specific acts*
– to accept that one country is better placed to
prosecute than another*
– to co-ordinate with one another
– to set up a Joint Investigation Team
– to provide Eurojust with any information
necessary to carry out its tasks*
Meeting Facilities
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Meeting Rooms in The Hague
Translation Facilities & Security
Experience & brokerage of co-ordination
Strategic Approach - Case Types
Individual Cases
Accommodation
Casework Meetings
• Human Trafficking – 50/60 investigators and prosecutors across
Europe
• Fundamentalist Terrorism – 70 attended from EU and outside
– Senior investigators and prosecutors + Europol
– Senior reps - Switzerland, Liechtenstein and
USA
– Huge potential of this group. Eurojust helps
them to work together to fulfil operational
potential
Specialisms
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Terrorism
Trafficking in Drugs
Trafficking People
European Arrest
Warrant
• Fraud
– Money Laundering
– Fraud EU Budget
• Environmental Crime
• Internet - Cyber crime
• Links to Liaison
Magistrates
Candidate States - Contact Points
• Bulgaria
• Romania
• Turkey
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Pavlina Nikolova
Angela Nicolae
Ceyda Umit
Esin Ozbilgin
Other Countries - Contact Points
• Liechtenstein
• Norway
• Switzerland
– Robert Wallner
– Knut Kallerud
– Maria Schnebli
• USA
• Canada
– Elizabeth Farr
– Elaine Krivel
• Russia
– Pavel Ivliev
• South America
– Almost all states
Integrated Approach to
Tackling Organised Crime
• Cross-border crime needs a whole case approach
• Need for co-ordinated action police investigators
prosecutors and others
• Too often find reasons for not integrating action
• Whatever the systems judicial input is powerful
and necessary for effective results
Police and Judiciary An Integrated Approach
Intelligence
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Police and Judiciary An Integrated Approach
Intelligence
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Evidence
Police and Judiciary An Integrated Approach
Intelligence
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Evidence
Police and Judiciary An Integrated Approach
Intelligence
Confiscation of Assets
Information
Evidence
Influencing Law-Makers
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Annual Report
Recommendations to improve MLA systems
Recommendations to improve MLA laws
Publicity for problems and blockages
Example - Europol links to Eurojust