European Judicial Network The EJN website:

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European Judicial NetworkThe EJN
website www.ejn-crimjust.europa.eu
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EJN Website background

• Objective making information available that is
  practical, useful and essential for the day to
  day operation of the national judicial
  authorities
• One of the most important attributes of the
  Network, set out in Article 3, Line c) of the
  Joint Action and reinforced by the Council
  Decision on the European Judicial Network in
  Articles 3c), 7 and 8.
• The construction of the so-called Network tools
  started before the EJN itself.
• The EJN website begun, was based in and until
  2004 it was administered from Portugal.
• Since June 2005 the EJN website is administrated
  by the EJN Secretariat placed at Eurojust
  headquarters, in The Hague.
• The EJN website can be accessed thanks to the
  following link www.ejn-crimjust.europa.eu
• These tools are used not only by the Contact
  Points but also by the judicial authorities from
  all the MS
• The EJN IT tools are composed of the List of
  Contact Points, the Legal Instruments, the Fiches
  Belges, the European Judicial Atlas (commonly
  known as the Atlas), the EAW Atlas, the Solon,
  the Compendium and the Forms section.

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The EJN Website Instruments

• The EJN Website presents two types of tools
• ExectutionTools these are the Cover Note and the
  Compendium, which also include complete models of
  Rogatory Letters.
• Information tools these are the List of Contact
  Points, the Fiches Belges, the European Judicial
  Atlas (commonly known as the Atlas), the Legal
  Instruments, the Solon and the Announcements

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List of Contact Points

• The list of contact points is a database which
  provides details for the contact points in each
  Member State (name, address, telephone, fax,
  e-mail, etc.). It can be viewed on the website,
  and is listed by Member State, in alphabetical
  order and by region.
• Restricted tool of the website due to its
  confidential information.

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List of Contact Points
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Fiches Belges

• Initiative of the Belgian Ministry of Justice in
  1997.
• This Tool contains legal, procedural and
  practical information relating to the most
  frequently requested investigative measures with
  regard to judicial cooperation in criminal
  matters.
• Two key ideas increase mutual understanding of
  the different criminal procedure systems and
  construct a practical tool that would address the
  needs of those practitioners who work in the area
  of international judicial cooperation in criminal
  matters.

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The European Judicial Atlas

• The European Judicial Atlas, also known as the
  Atlas, is a dynamic IT tool which provides
  details of the competent authorities for
  implementing requests for judicial cooperation
  and which simultaneously takes into account
  various types of data geographic area, judicial
  organisation, type of crime, type of measure
  required and the applicable international
  instruments.

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Atlas - location
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Atlas - results
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EAW Wizard online form

• Allows the practitioners to have all the details
  they need to draft and send a European Arrest
  Warrant.
• The search can be done by country, region, sub
  region, locality or postcode.

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EAW Wizard online form
Save warrant as XML, RTF or PDF file
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EAW Atlas

• The Atlas shows the time limit in which the
  receipt of the EAW is mandatory after the arrest
  of the person, the languages accepted by each
  countries, the addresses, phone, faxes of the
  competent receiving and execution authorities as
  well as of those competent in specific cases
  (such as transit or urgent cases).

The search flow of the EAW Atlas is similar to
that of the MLA Atlas. Results are presented as
shown here.
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Compendium Wizard online form

• The Compendium is the first EJN online tool that
  allows the creation of a rogatory letter by local
  judicial authorities in a standardised and
  uniform manner within the European Union.
• The tool has a fundamental importance in the
  practical application of the MLA Convention
  (especially at the beginning of the direct
  transmission of the requests for mutual legal
  assistance in criminal matters, foreseen in
  article 6).

Save letter as XML, RTF or PDF file
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Compendium Wizard online form
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Legal intruments and Solon

• Legal Instruments - compilation of legal texts
  (conventions, common positions or legal actions,
  funding programmes, decisions, framework
  decisions, resolutions, recommendations,
  agreements, as well as extracts from treaties)
  prepared within the context of the European Union
  and other institutions (Council of Europe, UN,
  etc.) with regard to mutual assistance in
  criminal matters.
• Solon - Glossary of legal linguistic equivalences
  in the area of international judicial
  cooperation, which was set up with the objective
  of helping with translation of rogatory letters.

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International Instruments(link to Council of the
European Union)
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Information on National Systems
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Formularies
Practitioners can easily access forms to be
filled in (e.g. EAW, Freezing Order Form, Form on
request of information extracted from the
criminal record)
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Cover note and Announcements

• COVER NOTE
• A pro forma standard was created by the EJN which
  the requesting authority attaches to their
  request for assistance.
• Contains a notice of receipt which the requested
  party should fill in and return to the requesting
  authority.
• Intended to improve and standardise direct
  contacts between judicial authorities. The cover
  notes are available for use in all of the
  official EU languages.
• ANNOUNCEMENTS 
• Launched in 2002 a new Tool was launched
• The objective of Announcements is to present a
  daily journal that reflects the activities of
  judicial cooperation in general and the European
  Judicial Network in particular. This section of
  the website contains all relevant information in
  this area, specifically new legal instruments
  relating to judicial cooperation, magazine
  articles, notices about meetings, national and
  international seminars, information on activities
  of cooperation in the Member States etc.

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About the EJN Secretariat
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EJN Website - Content

• Homepage with news items and announcements events
• EJN information tools
• Information on national systems
• Documents
• Forms
• About EJN and EJN Secretariat
• Links to related sites
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Contact Us

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