Police and Security, Vol. 21 No. 1, 2012.
Professional paper
The Implementation of the European Arrest Warrant into the Legal System of Croatia
Hrvoje Filipović
; Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Police Academy
Abstract
The European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is a judicial decision issued by EU member states in order to arrest and surrender a person wanted by another Member State, to conduct of criminal prosecution, imprisonment or execution of measures of deprivation of liberty.
EAW as a supranational judicial 'instrument' was passed on 13th June 2002 through the Framework Decision on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States.
The Republic of Croatia in order to implement the Framework Decision made the change in the consti-tutional provisions on the extradition of its nationals and passed the Law on judicial cooperation in criminal matters with the Member States of the European Union, which will begin to be applied on the 1st July 2013 when the Republic of Croatia becomes a full member of the European Union.
The Framework Decision proclaims judicial cooperation between Member States of the European Union, which replaced the long extradition procedures.
This text refers to the display and analysis of the most important provisions of the EAW Framework Decision and the Act on Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters with EU member states as well as to some comparative experiences that the EU members already have.
For the implementation of the Framework Decision the speciam importance lays on judicial coopera-tion, judicial and police cooperation through Europol, Interpol, Sirene, the Schengen system of data exchange (SIS) to locate wanted persons.
The last part of the work deals with an analytical review of the implementation of the EAW in the period from 2005 to 2009 for the 27 EU member states by number of issued and executed orders, and the duration of the extradition.
Keywords
arrest; the European arrest warrant; international legal assistance; Europol; Eurojust
Hrčak ID:
84291
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Publication date:
10.6.2012.
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