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What Is EAW AWARE?
About this project
Cross-border cooperation between courts and law enforcement agencies has been one of the most fundamental yet progressively more complex tasks in modern European criminal justice. The introduction of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) in 2002 put this cooperation on a new footing, but use of the EAW tool comes with attendant issues and responsibilities. Drawing on multi-agency practitioner experience our project will develop thematic seminars on these challenging points of implementation and policy:
• Obligations to examine conditions of detention, and broader standards of detention issues
• Sources of decision-making information
• Use of existing provisions in national law and informal judicial cooperation
• Harmonisation of practice and the development of jurisprudence
By bringing users of the EAW tool together on these issues, our activities are designed with the broad aims of supporting mutual trust and recognition of decision between neighbouring European judiciaries, and of promoting consistent use of European bodies.
EAW AWARE Seminars
The EAW AWARE Partnership is organising three practitioner seminars, where up to 20 European experts will work together on a prioritized agenda. The first of these took place in October 2019 in Bremen, Germany. Here 25 judges, public prosecutors, lawyers and academics came together for three days, also taking time to visit Bremen Prison and Klinikum Bremen Ost, Bremen's secure mental health facility. This brochure pulls together and builds on the results of the Bremen seminar.
The timetable for EAW AWARE seminars in Romania and Portugal has been put back due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, and indeed may be unable to support a prison visit for the same reason. Results of these seminars will be published in due course.
Results of the AWARE Seminars
Each seminar produces an information and training booklet tailored to the everyday needs of judges, prosecutors, lawyers and academics. Download these here:
EAW AWARE Assessment Tool
As one of our final outputs, the EAW AWARE team will build an online Procedural Assessment Tool, pulling together the information and practical information in an easy-to-use checklist.
EAW AWARE Partnership
Over two years from 03.2019, EAW AWARE brings together organisations from four EU Member States:
• Bremen Ministry of Justice in partnership with the Bremen Regional High Courts (Germany)
• Antigone (Italy)
• Romanian Superior Council of Magistracy (SCM) (Romania)
• IPS (Portugal)
Over two years from 03.2019, EAW AWARE brings together organisations from four EU Member States:
• Bremen Ministry of Justice in partnership with the Bremen Regional High Courts (Germany)
• Antigone (Italy)
• Romanian Superior Council of Magistracy (SCM) (Romania)
• IPS (Portugal)
EAW AWARE Advisory Council
EAW AWARE's agenda and outputs are guided by experts from two further EU member states. These advisory board members also propose practitioners in their own countries who would benefit from attending the seminars. The Advisory council meet regularly throughout the project.
The National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution (KSSIP) represents Poland on EAW AWARE’s Advisory Council.
Universidad Loyola represents Spain on EAW AWARE's advisory council.
Each of EAW AWARE’s partner countries are relatively high issuers and executors of the EAW tool, and this high usage casts a wide net for both the exchange and provision of surrender procedure information, and for potentially transferrable good practice. Each organization in our partnership can deliver a unique perspective on – and networks in – practitioner and end-user practice.