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16 - Eurojust

from Part V - Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

Kai Ambos
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Peter Rackow
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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Summary

In 1999, the Tampere European Council agreed that a Unit called Eurojust should be set up to reinforce the fight against serious organised crime. Following that statement, and after a brief period working as a provisional judicial cooperation unit, Eurojust was definitively established through a Council Decision in 2002 as a Union body with legal personality. The Lisbon Treaty called for a strengthened role of Eurojust, which has led to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2018/1727 on the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation. This new legal framework for Eurojust and its national members, applicable from 12 December 2019, has adapted the agency structure to the post-Lisbon scenario, introducing new features and enhancements that must be regarded as positive from the European dimension perspective. It also considers the judicial nature of their operational functions and the need to improve mutual trust between judicial authorities, strengthening the primacy of the rule of law within the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice. More than twenty years after the first mentioning of Eurojust at the Tampere summit, and when the new Eurojust Regulation is already in force, this chapter combines both academic and operational approaches to offer the reader an updated, comprehensive view of the mission, added value, and extensive possibilities offered by this unique European Union agency.

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Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Brière, C., ‘Cooperation of Europol and Eurojust with External Partners in the Fight against Crime: A Legal Appraisal’, in Hofmann, H.C.H., Vos, E., and Chamon, M., The External Dimension of EU Agencies and Bodies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, pp. 5977.Google Scholar
Coninsx, M., ‘Eurojust’, in Mitsilegas, V., and Bergström, M. (eds.), Research Handbook on EU Criminal Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016, 441456.Google Scholar
Covolo, V., ‘From Europol to Eurojust: Towards a European Public Prosecutor’, (2012) 7 eucrim, 8388.Google Scholar
Amicis, G. De, and Kostoris, R., ‘Vertical Cooperation’, in Kostoris, P. (ed.), Handbook of European Criminal Procedure, Cham: Springer, 2018, 223234.Google Scholar
López, A. Hernández, El papel de Eurojust en la resolución de conflictos de jurisdicción penal en la Unión Europea. Propuestas legislativas, Cizur Menor: Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2020, 35–147.Google Scholar
Luchtman, M., and Vervaele, J.A.E., ‘European Agencies for Criminal Justice and Shared Enforcement (Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office)’, (2014) 10 Utrecht L. Rev., 132150.Google Scholar
Suominen, A., ‘The Past, Present and the Future of Eurojust’, (2009 15 Maastricht J. Eur. Comp. L., 217234.Google Scholar
Weyembergh, A., ‘An Overall Analysis of the Proposal for a Regulation on Eurojust’, (2013) 4 eucrim, 129130.Google Scholar

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