von Dr. Anna Oehmichen/CCBE
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Abstract
The High-Level Forum on the Future of EU Criminal Justice, convened by the European Commission together with the Polish and Danish Council Presidencies, met throughout 2025 in four plenary sessions (4–5 March, 20–21 May, 1–2 October and 1 December 2025). It brought together more than one hundred participants from the EU institutions, Member States, EU agencies, the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA), civil society, practitioners and academia, with the aim of shaping a shared vision for future EU criminal justice policy. Within this process, the CCBE submitted a comprehensive contribution arguing that mutual recognition and effective judicial cooperation can only function sustainably where they rest on robust, enforceable procedural safeguards. The CCBE contribution calls for a new Roadmap on procedural rights under Article 82 TFEU and sets out a detailed legislative agenda across four main areas: judicial cooperation and mutual recognition, procedural safeguards, EU agencies and bodies and digitalisation of criminal justice.This paper summarises those proposals. It highlights, in particular, the need for targeted reform of the European Arrest Warrant and European Investigation Order, EU-level rules on pre-trial detention, exclusionary standards and defence investigations, stronger protection of legal professional privilege, clearer defence guarantees in the operation of Eurojust and the EPPO, and a fundamental-rights-centered approach to artificial intelligence and videoconferencing in criminal proceedings.
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