European arrest warrant represents an innovative criminal procedure instrument at the European level that has significantly helped the Member states of the European Union to effectively prosecute cross-border crime. The aim of my diploma thesis is to describe and analyze the European arrest warrant as a legal basis of surrender procedure among the Member states of EU. The description of this institute is not the only thing to be presented to the reader, the thesis also proposes a critical view on using it. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The introductory chapter is an analysis of the traditional international judicial cooperation in criminal matters and its particular types, mainly the extradition, which is important for a consecutive explanation of surrender procedure. After a brief theoretical part, in the second chapter author focuses on the evolution and the process of the European judicial cooperation in criminal matters, starting with the opening of the external borders of the EU regarding the Schengen Agreement in 1985, mentioning the important Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties and the last important change of the Treaties of the European Union brought by the Lisbon Treaty. Corpus Iuris, a prototype of a criminal law code of the EU, will be as well mentioned. Whereas the third...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:334739 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Vomlelová, Lenka |
| Contributors | Herczeg, Jiří, Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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