ECBA Autumn Conference 2013, Venice, Italy

11 and 12 October 2013 

EPPO, procedural safeguards and impartiality and independence of judges and prosecutors

Programme

General Information

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CONFERENCE REPORT

Venice, the “Queen of the Adriatic Sea”, the city with 118 islands and more than 400 bridges, was the spectacular venue of the ECBA Autumn 2013 Conference.
Lawyers, judges and academics from all corners of Europe and beyond flocked to the Conference, attracted by the highly interesting topic regarding the role of the ambitious European Public Prosecutor’s Office, procedural safeguards, and impartiality and independence of judges and prosecutors.
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CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS (PDF)

European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO)

• EPPO, procedural safeguards and impartiality and independence of judges and prosecutors 
  Vito Monetti, Prosecutor general of the Court of appeal of Genova, Italy
  
  
• EPPO, procedural safeguards and impartiality and independence of judges and prosecutors 
  Michèle Coninsx, President of Eurojust
  
  

Directive on Access to a Lawyer (Measure C1/ D)

• An outline of the presentation but note that the speaker ad-libbed extensively!
  Caroline Morgan, European Commission
  
  

Panel discussion - Impartiality and independence of judges and prosecutors with the focus on pre-trial stage

• Il Pubblico ministero europeo: questo sconosciuto (only available in Italian)
  Valerio Spigarelli, President of the Unione Camere Penali Italiane, speech delivered by Mrs Carmela Parziale
  
  
• France in the Panel - summary of the intervention
  Olivier de Baynast, General Prosecutor at the Court of  Douai, France
  
  
• Independence and Impartiality of Judges
  Robin Grey (ECBA)
  
  

Projects and working group

• Draft Article - The Istanbul Resolution of the European Criminal Bar Association
  This article, the editorial and the article 'First hand account of the fifth hearing of the Kurdish Lawyers' trial held in the Silivri Prison Courtroom, outside Istanbul, on 20 June 2013 by Margaret Owen, OBE as in our conference materials are also pubished in the Editorial of the NJECL Volume 4, Issue 3
  Scott Crosby, ECBA Human Rights Officer (HRO)
  
  

Recent developments and proposed reforms affecting the legal profession in the European Union.

• The New Serbian Criminal Procedure Code
  Vladimir Hrle, Serbia
  
  
• VAT for lawyers in Belgium:Criminal defense 21% more expensive, a blessing or a curse?
  Hans van de Wal, Belgium