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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.

Second call for applications have been launched for financial assistance for EJN regional and national meetings taking place in 2016.

EuroPris May 2016 Newsletter

On 7-9 June 2016 the 46th Plenary of the European Judicial Network (EJN) took place in Amsterdam and The Hague under the Netherlands EU Presidency. The meeting gathered more than 130 participants: EJN contact points from the EU Member States, EU associated and candidate countries, as well as representatives from Eurojust, the European Commission, the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, and partner organisations.

On 1 June 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has rendered its judgment in Case C 241/15 “Bob-Dogi”, which clarified interesting legal aspects on the need for the existence of a national arrest warrant issued prior to and separately from the European arrest warrant.

On 24 May 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has rendered its judgment in case C-108/16 PPU “ Paweł Dworzecki”.

EuroPris March 2016 Newsletter

Assistance in International Cooperation in Criminal Matters for Practitioners

On 5 April 2016, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered an important judgment in the Joint Cases C-404/15 Aranyosi and C-659/15PPU Căldăraru.

On 16 March 2016, the 15th Tool Correspondents meeting of the European Judicial Network took place in The Hague.

In November 2015, the Council of Europe Committee of experts on the Operation of the European Conventions on Co-operation in Criminal matters (PC-OC) has adopted a Model Request Form for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters (MLA) and Guidelines to this form.