Cooperation Agreement between the European Central Bank and Europol for Combating Euro Counterfeiting. Some Critical Opinions

• Author: Bogdan Birzu
• Position: Assistant Professor, PhD, 'Dimitrie Cantemir' University of Bucharest, Romania
• Pages: 84-93

ACTA UNIVERSITATIS DANUBIUS Vol. 12, no. 2/2016

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Cooperation Agreement between the

European Central Bank and Europol for

Combating Euro Counterfeiting. Some

Critical Opinions

Bogdan BIRZU

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Abstract: Within this paper there has been examined the agreement between the European Police

Office (Europol) and the European Central Bank (ECB) for preventing and combating euro

counterfeiting, focusing on certain provisions which take into account the aim and the exchange of

information between the two European institutions. The novelty of this paper relates to the achieved

examination, where it is highlighted the importance of European legal instrument and the critical

opinions and proposals for improving the agreement. The paper can be useful to academics and

practitioners who conduct their activity within this area.

Keywords: Crime; exchange of information; databases; applications for assistance

1. Preliminary Issues. Europol and its Powers

Providing a space of freedom, security and justice, an objective set by the EU is not

possible without concrete and also simultaneously action in two main directions.

The first direction regards the adoption of normative acts to ensure judicial

cooperation in criminal matters between Member States, and the second one involves

the establishment of European institutions with concrete tasks of preventing and

combating cross-border crime.

Among the European institutions with concrete tasks on preventing and combating

crime, by emphasizing the specific activities of judicial cooperation in criminal

matters between Members responsible in the field of European Union, we refer to

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Assistant Professor, PhD, “Dimitrie Cantemir” University of Bucharest, Romania, Address: 176

Splaiul Unirii, Bucharest 030134, Romania, Tel.: +4021 330 8931, Corresponding author:

birzu_bogdan@yahoo.com.

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