[P2P-F] Fwd: EU Commission, on a supranational basis, may legislate in criminal law

Sun Jun 26 14:06:42 CEST 2011

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:05 PM
Subject: EU Commission, on a supranational basis, may legislate in criminal
law
To: econowmix at googlegroups.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_freedom,_security_and_justice

"That ruling set a precedent that *the Commission, on a supranational basis,
may legislate in criminal law* – something never done before to outlined in
treaties. So far though, the only other use has been the intellectual
property rights
directive<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_directive_on_criminal_measures_aimed_at_ensuring_the_enforcement_of_intellectual_property_rights>
.[13]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_freedom,_security_and_justice#cite_note-E.21Sharp0507_Legal-12>
Motions
were tabled in the European Parliament against that legislation on the basis
that criminal law should not be an EU competence, but was rejected at vote.[
14]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_freedom,_security_and_justice#cite_note-Piracy_vote-13>
However
in October 2007 the Court of Justice ruled the Commission could not propose
what the criminal sanctions could be, only that there must be
some.[15]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_freedom,_security_and_justice#cite_note-EUO_Oct-14>

The European Commission has listed seven
offences<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_offence> that
become European crimes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_crime>. The
seven crimes announced by the Commission
arecounterfeiting<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeiting> euro
notes and coins; credit card and cheque
fraud<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque_fraud>
; money laundering <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering>;
people-trafficking <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-trafficking>;
computer hacking and virus attacks; corruption in the private sector;
and marine
pollution <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_pollution>. "

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