Cooperation between member states and Europol

• Author: Bogdan Bîrzu
• Pages: 33-43

Cooperation between member states and Europol

Assistant professor Bogdan BÎRZU1

Abstract

Within this study, we have examined the way in which the Europol national units

were regulated in the European normative act and the regulation of the two forms of

judicial assistance in criminal matters, namely joint investigation teams and liaison

officers. The research also included the way in which the Romania n legislator transposed

into its internal law the provisions of the European legislative act. Another subject of the

research was the formulation of critical views and de lege ferenda proposals, both for the

European and for the Romanian law. The novelty elements that are promoted through this

study aim both at examining the Europ ean legal instrument, the way it is transposed into

the Romanian law, as well as the critical opinions and de lege ferenda proposals,

proposing to contribute to the improvement of the European and Romanian normative

system in this domain. The present study should b e viewed as a follow-up to the one

previously published, completing the examination of this European institution with a key

role in preventing and combating transnational crime at European level. The work may be

useful for students and master students of law faculties, practitioners in the field, as well as

the European and Romanian leg islators in terms of amending and completing the current

legislative system.

Keywords: joint in vestigation teams; liaison officers; Europ ol national units;

European Union.

JEL Classification: K14; K33

1. Introduction

In the 1/2017 issue of the Juridical Tribune – Tribuna Juridica Journal we

have published the study entitled “Europol objectives and tasks in the construction

of the European Union. Some critical opinions and proposals”, where we have

highlight the importance of Europol in preventing and combating cross-border

crime in the European Union, insisting on presenting the objectives and attributions

of this European institution.2

1 Bogdan Bîrzu – „Titu Maiorescu” University of Bucharest, Romania, birzu_bogdan@yahoo.com.

2 Bogdan Birzu, Europol objectives and tasks in the construction of the European Union. S ome

critical opinions and proposals, „Juridical Tribune – Tribuna Juridica”, volume 7, issue 1, June

2017, pp. 157-166.