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MEPs approve common rules of transnational criminal investigation
ARTICLE | THU, 02/27/2014 - 24:22
The European Parliament (EP) today approved new rules proposed by the European Commission in criminal matters aimed at facilitating transnational criminal investigations, particularly in obtaining evidence or hear witnesses.
"Adopting this policy means bad news for those who commit crimes in the EU and an important tool for those who investigates crimes in the common space, "said Nuno Melo (CDS), EP rapporteur.
European Investigation Order (EIO), adopted in Strasbourg by 467 votes in favor, 22 against and 10 abstentions, aims to facilitate the taking of evidence by the judicial authorities in transnational criminal investigations.
This is already possible today, but researchers have to rely on a diverse set of standards, some more than 50 years.
A decision on recognition or execution of an EIO should be taken within 30 days.
If accepted, the investigative measure must be performed within 90 days, and if you can not meet this deadline, the authority of the executing State shall inform authority of the issuing State of the reasons for the delay.
DEI Under the authorities of another country can ignore the request or set their own deadlines and may refuse to recognize or enforce a decision on a limited number of cases, for example if is likely to harm essential national security interests or if the investigative measure is not authorized by the law of the executing State in a similar national case.
According to the deputy, "media cases like Madeleine McCann or Freeport, to give two examples involved two countries - my country, Portugal, and England - would have immediately benefited from this policy by lower administrative and bureaucratic complexity that will ensure. " DEI has been agreed between the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers of the European Union.
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