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The Commission would like to re-issue its previously aborted proposal for a Framework Decision on minimum procedural safeguards for suspects and defendants in criminal matters. However, a more piecemeal approach may be all that the Council will entertain – possibly an action plan, with individual elements of the original proposal taken forward one-at-a-time. Arguably better than nothing, but hardly the balance to e.g. the European Arrest warrant, that defence lawyers seek.
The Commission would like to re-issue its previously aborted proposal for a Framework Decision on minimum procedural safeguards for suspects and defendants in criminal matters. However, a more piecemeal approach may be all that the Council will entertain – possibly an action plan, with individual elements of the original proposal taken forward one-at-a-time. Arguably better than nothing, but hardly the balance to e.g. the European Arrest warrant, that defence lawyers seek.
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