Seminar: The Council Framework Decisions on detention and transfer of prisoners
The seminar will focus on the Council Framework Decisions on detention and transfer of prisoners, namely the identification of European standards of pre-trial detention and detention drawing on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on the basis of the European Convention of Human Rights and also the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. A special effort will be made as to how to make sure the continuous and appropriate application of EU mutual recognition instruments in cases where there is a concern in relation to the detention conditions in the other EU Member State.
In this context, the following instruments will be discussed:
Council Framework Decision 2009/829/JHA on the application, between Member States of the European Union, of the principle of mutual recognition to decisions on supervision measures as an alternative to pre-trial detention