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A new handbook on How to Issue and Execute a European Arrest Warrant has been released by the European Commission.

- Regional Meeting, Paris, 22 September 2017

Finland organised a third regional meeting of the European Judicial Network on 21 and 22 September 2017 in Helsinki, at the premises of the Ministry of Justice.

On 5 and 6 October 2017 the 1st Regional and 7th National Meeting of the Contact Points of the European Judicial Network took place in Warsaw.

On 28 August 2017 the EJN Secretariat launched a new public area on the EJN website dedicated to the practical application of the Directive 2014/41/EU regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters

The CJEU clarified the margin of discretion that Member States have in transposing the provisions of Article 4(6) of the Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States

The 48th Plenary of the European Judicial Network took place from 29 to 30 June in Valletta under the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

On 16 May 2017, the 1st national meeting of the European Judicial Network Contact Points took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. The meeting was organised by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania with financial support from the EJN budget.

On 14 June 2017 the Centre for International Legal Assistance Amsterdam organised a conference on the topic of the EAW.

The 18th Annual Meeting of the German EJN Contact Points and 6th Annual EJN Regional Meeting in Berlin on May 9th, 2016 dealt with practical and legal problems concerning the implementation of the Directive 2013/48/EU of 22 October 2013 on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings and in European arrest warrant proceedings.

On 10 May 2017, a regional meeting of the European Judicial Network (EJN) took place in Riga.

The Directive 2014/41/EU regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters entered into force for five Member States of the European Union which have transposed it in time and are ready to apply this new legal instrument in practice.

The first issue 2017 of the Eucrim Journal is now available online.

Due to maintenance in preparation for the move to the new Eurojust premises, the EJN website will not be available on 13 and 14 May 2017.

The question referred to the CJEU was whether national legislation which makes it possible to combine tax penalties and criminal penalties with respect to the same act or omission – consisting of non-payment of VAT –, is compatible with Article 50 of the Charter, in conjunction with Article 4 of Protocol No. 7 to the European Convention on Human Rights?

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was asked to interpret Article 2, Article 3(1)(c), and Article 6(1) and (3) of Directive 2012/13/EU on the right to information in criminal proceedings. In this judgment, the CJEU reaffirms the Covaci judgement by stressing that the procedures cannot undermine the objective of the Directive and in the safeguarding of the fairness of the proceedings.