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Awareness of One’s Own Rights and Knowledge of the Accusation: The Implementation of the Directive on the Right to Information in Italy

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The contribution analyses some issues relating to the transposition into the Italian legal system of Directive 2012/13/EU on the right to information in criminal proceedings. The Author firstly examines the contents of the supranational measure and, afterwards, performs a critical evaluation of the national law aimed at implementing the European defence rights (d. lgs. 1 July 2014, no. 101). Some inconsistencies between the Directive and national law provisions are then highlighted, underlining how the internal legislator, instead of protecting the effectiveness of the right to information, only ensures a formal fulfilment of the obligations deriving from EU law.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Resolution of the Council of 30 November 2009 (OJ, 4 December 2009, C-295, p. 1).

  2. 2.

    For a more detailed analysis on this, see Rafaraci (2014), p. 1 ff.

  3. 3.

    See Ciampi (2012), p. 7.

  4. 4.

    Ciampi (2013), p. 24; Ruggeri (2015), p. 18.

  5. 5.

    Ciampi (2012), p. 8.

  6. 6.

    Italian Court of Cassation, Sez. Un., 25 March 1998, D’Abramo, in Cassazione penale, 1998, p 2874. More recently, see Italian Court of Cassation, Sez. V, 20 September 2010, Perrotta, in C.E.D. Cass., n. 248887.

  7. 7.

    For a more detailed analysis, see Negri (2014), pp. 194 ff.

  8. 8.

    ECJ, 15 October 2015, Covaci, C-216/14. See the annotation by Gialuz (2015), pp. 100 ff.

  9. 9.

    Gialuz (2015), pp. 106–107.

  10. 10.

    This provision has been introduced by Law no. 60, 6 March 2001.

  11. 11.

    Nappi (2001), p. 696.

  12. 12.

    For this opinion, see Cordova and D’Alterio (2001), p. 60; Ciampi (2010), pp. 472 ff.

  13. 13.

    Ciampi (2014), pp. 17–18.

  14. 14.

    See ECJ, 4 December 1974, Van Duyn, C-41/74, and ECJ, 5 April 1979, Ratti, C-148/78.

  15. 15.

    On harmonious interpretation and the role of national judges, see Bontempelli (2014), pp. 82–84.

  16. 16.

    Ciampi (2010), pp. 242–244.

  17. 17.

    Ciampi (2014), p. 8.

  18. 18.

    Ciampi (2014), pp. 8–9.

  19. 19.

    Illuminati (1996), pp. 100–101.

  20. 20.

    See, for example, Italian Court of Cassation, Sez. IV, 8 November 2013, Stuppia and others, in C.E.D. Cass., n. 259,121; Italian Court of Cassation, Sez. V, 22 April 2009, Abbruzzese and others, in C.E.D. Cass., n. 243,899; Italian Court of Cassation, Sez. III, 15 October 2003, Spagnoletto and others, in C.E.D. Cass., n. 226346.

  21. 21.

    Ciampi (2014), pp. 27–28.

  22. 22.

    For similar considerations, see Ciampi (2014), p. 29.

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Negri, D. (2019). Awareness of One’s Own Rights and Knowledge of the Accusation: The Implementation of the Directive on the Right to Information in Italy. In: Rafaraci, T., Belfiore, R. (eds) EU Criminal Justice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97319-7_3

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