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Mutual Recognition and Transfer of Evidence. The European Evidence Warrant

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The author examines the development of cooperation in criminal matters within the European Union with a special view to the gathering of evidence on the basis of the European Evidence Warrant (EEW). He describes the most characteristic features of the EEW and scrutinises the conception of an “admissibility of evidence throughout Europe”.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    OJEU 2008 No. L 350, p. 72. For further information see Esser (2011), p. 1497 ff.; Hecker (2010), § 12 points 10–12; Roger (2010), pp. 27, 33 ff.; Satzger (2011), § 10 point 36; Zimmermann et al. (2011), pp. 56, 66 ff.

  2. 2.

    Hecker (2010), § 2 points 61 ff.; Zimmermann et al. (2011), pp. 56, 57 ff.

  3. 3.

    Zimmermann et al. (2011), pp. 56, 59.

  4. 4.

    Hecker (Fn. 1), § 12 point 12.

  5. 5.

    Art. 2(a).

  6. 6.

    Art. 2(b).

  7. 7.

    COM (2009), p. 624 final. See also the initiative for a European Investigation Order (OJ 2010 C 165/22). For further information see Zimmermann et al. (2011), pp. 56, 67 ff.

  8. 8.

    Hecker (2010), § 12 point 59; Satzger (2003), pp. 137, 142; Zimmermann et al. (2011), pp. 56, 61 ff.

  9. 9.

    Gleß (2003), pp. 131, 148 ff.; Hecker (2010), § 12 points 65 ff.

Abbreviations

CISA:

Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement

COM:

Component Object Model

ECJ:

European Court of Justice

ECMACM:

European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters

ECtHR:

European Court of Human Rights

EEW:

European Evidence Warrant

OJEU:

Official Journal of European Union

StPO:

Code of Criminal Procedure (Strafprozessordnung)

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  1. Law School, University of Trier, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Universitätsring No. 15, Trier, Germany

    Bernd Hecker

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    Stefano Ruggeri

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Hecker, B. (2013). Mutual Recognition and Transfer of Evidence. The European Evidence Warrant. In: Ruggeri, S. (eds) Transnational Inquiries and the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Criminal Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32012-5_19

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