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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 51 No 2 (2005), 45–72
Komunitární a unijní metody harmonizace skutkových podstat některých trestných činů
[Community and Union Law Methods of Harmonising Objective Features of Some Criminal Acts]
Michal Tomášek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.79
published online: 14. 02. 2025
abstract
Criminal law and criminal proceeding has been outside Community competencies since the foundation of the EEC. Nevertheless the Court of Justice expressed on several occasions an opinion that criminal law should not be applied to the detriment of four basic freedoms of the Single Market. ln the famous case Cowan the Court of Justice concluded that the indemnity paid to a victim of criminal assault has to be paid under the same conditions to any citizen of any EC Member State. Negative harmonization of the criminal law was completed by a positive one after the EU Treaty in 1992 introduced a concept of cooperation in criminal and justice matters under the Third Pillar of the European Union. Common criminalisation of some types of criminal attacks was strengthened after the introduction of Amsterdam Treaty in 1999. As from the early 1990s, the EU was able to define some criminal activities to be prosecuted in the common interest of Member States and thus to be harmonised as to their minimal subjective features: e.g. money laundering, drug dealings etc. Community tools can only formulate preventive steps of Member States like reporting of suspicious money transactions but a harmonisation of criminal prosecution can be done only by Third Pillar acts like framework decisions. The article is dealing in detail with framework decisions on euro counterfeiting. Another method of harmonisation of objective features of criminal activities is the case-law. The article deals with two examples: fraud against financial interests of the Community and “insider trading”. The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe is going to integrate community and union methods of harmonisation of selected criminal offences under one area of European Union law. This can obviously contribute not only to a more efficient system of criminal prosecution among Member States but as well to a strengthened reflection of human rights system as established by the Constitution for Europe.
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