Before the webinars:

• Get started by reading the introduction to the role of the CJEU in criminal matters as well as the CJEU’s application of general principles of EU law in the field of criminal justice in the e-learning course.


• Send in your questions regarding the topic of the forthcoming webinar for the speaker to address them during the webinar presentation.

During the webinars:

• Watch the live presentation and chat with the speaker.

After the webinars:

• Read the answers to the most important questions in our blog.

Moreover:

• Read more about the CJEU’s role in criminal matters, e.g. about its interpretation of substantive and procedural criminal law and its contribution to the mutual recognition principle and fundamental rights in the e-learning course.


• Watch the webinar presentations again on video.

• Overview
• Types of actions
• Preliminary ruling and urgent preliminary ruling procedures

• European Arrest Warrant: Halil Ibrahim Özçelik (C-453/16PPU), Bob-Dogi (C-241/15), Aranyosi and Căldăraru (C-404/15 and C-659/15 PPU) etc.
• Ne bis in idem: Piotr Kossowski (C-486/14), M (C-398/12), Spasic (C-129/14 PPU) etc.
• Detention: Emil Milev (C-439/16), Dániel Bertold Lada (C-390/16), Gerrit Van Vemde (C-582/15) etc.
• Interpretation and translation: Frank Sleutjes (C-278/126), István Balogh (C-25/15), Gavril Covaci (C-216/14) etc.

• How to convince the national judge to make a preliminary reference to the CJEU
• The urgent preliminary ruling procedure (PPU)
• The written observations
• The oral phase

• What are the general principles of EU law that the CJEU has applied in the field of criminal justice?
• How does the Court balance mutual recognition and fundamental rights in the area of criminal justice?
• How is the multi-layered protection of fundamental rights (at national, EU and CoE level) balanced in the Courts law in the area of criminal justice?
• What is the specific scope of direct effect of EU directives in national crime proceedings?
• What is the scope of the principle of interpretation in conformity with EU law?
• Which areas of substantive criminal law have been addressed by the Court?
• Which provisions of procedural criminal law have been interpreted by the Court?
• What is the contribution of the Court to the ne bis in idem principle in EU judicial cooperation in criminal matters?
• Is the accumulation of administrative and criminal sanctions for the same acts allowed under EU law?
• What is the contribution of the Court to the mutual recognition principle?