TAIEX Seminar on Judicial Cooperation in
Criminal Matters: Twenty Years of
Sharing EU Expertise
organised in co-operation with
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Ministry of Justice
of
the Republic of Poland
Venue:
Hotel Mercure Warzsawa Grand****
ul. Krucza 28
00-522 Warszawa - Poland
02 - 03 June 2016
Beneficiaries:
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia,
Kosovo*,Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
JHA 61765
Aim of the seminar:
This seminar is one of five that has been scheduled by TAIEX to
mark the twentieth anniversary of the TAIEX Instrument. It has been
organised by the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) team of TAIEX in
partnership with the Polish Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs.
It will focus on justice, freedom and security – chapter 24 of the EU
acquis - and in particular, on judicial cooperation in criminal matters
(see articles 82-86 TFEU).
Crime and terrorism know no borders and a cross-border dimension
is often present in cases of organised crime. Judicial cooperation in
criminal matters is necessary in order to fight criminal organisations
- for instance criminal gangs of people-smugglers - which are active
in several EU and/or partner countries, to bring to justice an
offender on the run in another state or to hear the testimony of a
witness residing in a different country.
The objectives of the seminar are to:
a) discuss the scope for judicial cooperation in criminal matters,
with particular regard to:
 Instruments for Mutual Legal Assistance and the Principle of
Mutual Recognition;
 EUROJUST (mandate and competences);
 European Arrest Warrant;
 Procedural Rights of the Accused as well as Victims;
*this designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on
the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.
 Cross-Border Cooperation in the Fight against Trafficking in
Human Beings (THB), Terrorism and Immigrant Smuggling;
b) describe the JHA capacity-building assistance that was provided
through TAIEX to Poland prior to the country's accession to the
European Union on 1 May 2004;
c) provide information on the support and guidance given by Polish
public experts to both beneficiaries and partner countries under the
Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA) and the European
Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI).
--All presentations of TAIEX experts are available under the following
link:
http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex/dyn/taiex-events/library/detail_en.jsp?EventID=61765
Conference language: English without interpretation service.
Day 1: Thursday 02 June 2016
ROOM: Olimp 1
Chair: Mr Lawrence Meredith (EC Director), Ms Christiane Kirschbaum (EC Team leader)
Registration of experts and participants
08:30
Opening ceremony
09:00
09:30
09:40
Welcome and opening remarks:
Dr. Marcin Warchoł, Polish Deputy Minister of
Justice
--Ms Zuzanna Kierzkowska, Director of the
Department of Development Cooperation,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
--Mr Lawrence Meredith, Director of
Neighbourhood East, DG NEAR, European
Commission
The role of TAIEX in the enlargement process
and with regards to cooperation with Eastern
Partnership countries
Ms Christiane Kirschbaum, Head of Section for
Justice and Home Affairs, Institution Building
Unit (TAIEX), DG NEAR, European Commission
TAIEX Today: A View from Poland
Mr Wojciech Gołębiowski,
TAIEX National Contact Point for Poland,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Morning session
(moderator: Mr Lawrence Meredith, Director of Neighbourhood East, DG NEAR, European
Commission)
Eurojust – Successful Judicial Cooperation
09:50
without harmonisation
10:30
11:00
11:40
12:00
Mr Klaus Meyer-Cabri, Eurojust, National
Member for Germany and Director-General in
the German Federal Ministry of Justice and
Consumer Protection
Coffee break
Introduction: judicial cooperation in criminal
matters within the EU framework
Ms María Poza Cisneros, Eurojust, Senior
Judge, Deputy to the National Member for
Spain
Questions and answers
Implementation of EU judicial cooperation
instruments into Croatian legal system and
TAIEX support during the process.
12:40
Ms Maja Rakić, Head of Section, Department
for Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance in
Criminal Matters, Croatian Ministry of Justice
Questions and answers
12:50
Lunch break
Afternoon session
(moderator: Darius Žilys, Director of the Department of International Law, Lithuanian
Ministry of Justice)
Mutual recognition, mutual trust? How
14:00
Poland learned to apply the European Arrest
Warrant (EAW)
14:40
Ms Beata Hlawacz, acting Deputy Director of
the Bureau of International Cooperation at the
Polish Prosecutor’s Office
Post-sentencing
cooperation:
Mutual
recognition of final decisions – a revolution
after the European Union instruments?
Mr Rafał Kierzynka, Judge, European and
15:20
15:40
International Criminal
Ministry of Justice
Questions and answers
Law
Unit,
Polish
EU-led cooperation in the fight against
terrorism, war crimes and crimes against
humanity: a perspective from the German
federal prosecutor's office
16:20
Dr. Heike Neuhaus, Head of Department for
Central Tasks, Espionage and International
Criminal Law, Public Prosecutor General at the
Federal Court of Justice, Germany
Questions and answers
16:30
Short coffee break
Roundtable discussion moderated by Mr Tomasz Darkowski, Director of Legal Affairs, Polish
Ministry of Justice
Lessons learned: our way towards securing
16:50
Freedom, Security and Justice
Speakers:
Mr Igor Dzialuk, Former Member of the
Negotiating Team in Negotiations on the
Accession of Poland to the EU, Former Polish
Deputy Minister of Justice
--Ms Maja Rakić, Head of Section, Department
for Extradition and Mutual Legal
Assistance in Criminal Matters, Croatian
Ministry of Justice
--Mr Darius Žilys, Director of the Department of
International Law, Lithuanian Ministry of
Justice
Closing remarks by the Polish Ministry of
17:50 – 18:00
Justice
Networking reception hosted by the Polish
18:30 - 20:00
Ministry of Justice
Location: Hotel Mercure (Restaurant)
Day 2: Friday 03 June 2016
Room: Olimp 1
08:30
09:00
Ms Christiane Kirschbaum (EC Team leader)
Registration
Case study on the "lorry case" – A tragic case
on the fatal consequences of human greed:
people smuggling, which led to the deaths of
71 migrants
09:45
Dr. Gábor Schmidt, prosecutor, spokesman,
County PO of County Bács-Kiskun, Hungary
Questions and answers
10:00
Coffee break
Working group sessions
10:20 – 12:20
Working group II - EaP session
Working group I - IPA session
ROOM:
Olimp 3 and W+B room (ground
ROOM: Olimp 1
floor)
Procedural rights of accused persons and From mutual legal assistance to the mutual
victims in the EU
legal recognition of judicial decisions – An EU
approach – case studies
Mr Tomasz Darkowski, Director of Legal
Affairs, Polish Ministry of Justice
Case study A:
Ms María Poza Cisneros, Eurojust, Senior
and
Judge, Deputy to the National Member for
Spain
Mr Andrzej Milewski, The Circuit Prosecutor's
Office in Bydgoszcz
Case study B:
Anna Fiodorova, full-time professor, Carlos III
(Each group needs to define a rapporteur.)
University of Madrid, Department for Penal
Law, Procedural Law and History of Law
(Each group needs to define a rapporteur.)
12:20
Lunch break
13:20
Presentation of working groups findings by
the three rapporteurs
13:50
Trends in the training of judges and public
prosecutors within the area of criminal
justice
14:20
14:30
Mr Wojciech Postulski, Secretary General of
the European Judicial Training Network
Closing remarks of the Polish Ministry of
Justice
End of the conference
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of the European Commission
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