EU CONFISCATION
February 1st, 2004
BY ALAN OSBORNJUSTICE and home affairs ministers of the 15 European Union (EU) member states (and the 10 countries due to join the EU on May1) are close to an agreement on a framework directive establishing the mutual recognition principle in matters involving the confiscation of the proceeds of crime. Once approved the measure will mean that every member state will have to recognise and execute in its territory all confiscation orders issued by the judicial authorities of other EU countries. The directive is linked to a framework decision applying mutual ...
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