Essential Texts on International and European Criminal Law

Book excerpt: This notebook comprises the principal policy documents and multilateral legal instruments on international and European criminal law, with a special focus on Europol and Eurojust as well as on initiatives aimed at combating international or organized crime or terrorism. It is meant to provide students as well as practitioners (judicia] and law enforcement authorities, lawyers, researchera, ...) throughout Europe with an accurate, up-to-date and low-budget edition of essential texts on these matters. These texts have been ordered according to the multilateral cooperation level within which they were drawn up: either Prum, the European Union (comprising also Schengen-related texts), the Council of Europe or the United Nations. Within each of these four parts, they have been included in chronological order. With a view to strengthening internal coherente, however, certain texts have been inserted immediately following the text they modify, supplement or otherwise re-late to. This compilation, containing over 10 newly added texts for the fourth edition, has been brought up to 15 August 2005.