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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 53 No 1 (2007), 27–42
Europeizace ochrany měny
[Europeization of Currency Protection]
Michal Tomášek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.18
published online: 23. 01. 2025
abstract
Every Member State has jurisdiction over offences committed on its territory. In the case of the counterfeiting of the euro, however, the Member States having adopted the euro may bring prosecutions irrespective of the place where the offence was committed. If several Member States have jurisdiction, they are to cooperate with a view to centralising the prosecution in a single State. The euro is a central part of the economy, protecting it against counterfeiting is essential. Through this current directive, the Council ensures a general, cohesive and efficient system to protect the euro against counterfeiting. Criminal offences against single currency are to be classified as criminal offences in all the Member States. This means that the latter must provide for penalties for these offences, depending on whether natural or legal persons commit them. Penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. They will not necessarily involve deprivation of liberty, except in the most serious cases, which may give rise to extradition. Member States will have some discretion in determining the gravity of an offence and the nature and severity of the penalties that apply. The provisions of criminal law required for the effective implementation of Community law are a matter for the EC Treaty (first pillar): Where a criminal law provision specific to the matter in hand is needed to ensure the effectiveness of Community law, it is adopted under the first pillar only. But where there does not appear to be a need to resort to the criminal law at Union level or where there are already adequate horizontal provisions, specific legislation is not introduced at European level. This system brings to an end the double-text mechanism (directive or regulation and framework decision) which has been used on several occasions in the past. The horizontal criminal law provisions aimed at encouraging police and judicial cooperation fall within Title VI of the Union Treaty (third pillar): These provisions in the broad sense include measures on the mutual recognition of judicial decisions, measures based on the principle of availability, and measures on the harmonisation of criminal law. Those aspects of criminal law and criminal procedure which require a horizontal approach do not, in principle, fall within the scope of Community law, examples being questions linked to general rules of criminal law and criminal procedure as well as those related to police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
keywords: Euro, European fraud; counterfeiting of euro notes and coins; counterfeiting of means of payment; framework decisions
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