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The Japanese mission to the European Union provided a Fact-sheet on the practical conduct of mutual legal assistance procedures under the EU-Japan Mutual Legal.

The third issue of EUCRIM 2016, dedicated to ‘The Architecture of European Law Enforcement Cooperation’, is now online.

The meeting gathered more than 130 participants: local authorities from Slovakia, EJN contact points from the EU Member States, candidate, associated and third countries, as well as representatives from Eurojust, the European Commission, the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU and partner organisations.

On 11 November 2016 in Nairobi, the Great Lakes Judicial Cooperation Network was established with the aim to facilitate the administration of justice through judicial cooperation in the Great Lakes region. This network comprises the 12 member states of the Great Lakes Region and other countries in the region and it will be based on the model of the EJN.

Four important judgments in the area of judicial cooperation in criminal matters have been rendered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) last week, three of them regarding the Council Framework Decision on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States and one in relation to the Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA on mutual recognition of custodial sentences.

8th NCM took place in The Hague under the Slovak EU Presidency

The second issue of EUCRIM 2016, dedicated to ‘The Costs of Non-Europe’, is now online.

During the Maltese Presidency the following EJN meetings will take place.

By Law no. 149 of 21 July 2016, the Italian Parliament authorised the ratification of the Convention of 29 May 2000 on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Member States of the European Union, and delegated the Government for the adoption of the related, necessary, law provisions, which have to be adopted in the six months following the publication on the Italian Official Journal.

On 6 September 2016, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in Case C-182/15 Petruhhin. This case concerned a request for preliminary ruling made by the Latvian Supreme Court in the context of an extradition request addressed by the Russian Federation to Latvia, in relation to Mr Petruhhin, an Estonian national, in connection with a drug-trafficking offence.

HELP stands as the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals. And “HELP in the 28” is the EU funded programme for HELP in the 28 EU Member States.

The Member State that issued a European arrest warrant is required to consider, for the purposes of deducting the period of detention served in the executing Member State, whether the measures taken against the person concerned in the executing State have the effect of depriving a person of liberty.

Following the UK decision to relinquish the Council presidency in the second half of 2017

Last week two important tools of the EJN Website have seen major upgrades. The Compendium is used to draft requests for judicial cooperation and replaces two earlier versions: the MLA Compendium and the EAW Compendium. The new Compendium extends the scope to incorporate several Mutual Recognition Instruments.

The Slovak Republic is holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second semester of 2016.

An important judgment in preliminary ruling on the interpretation of the ne bis in idem principle in Schengen context has been pronounced today.