Third meeting of the Working Group on Criminal and Penitentiary Law.

This meeting takes place under the third main component of the project: Criminal and Penitentiary Law. The objective of this activity is two-fold, namely to promote a debate on the reform of criminal systems in the beneficiary countries, with special reference to procedural criminal law, and to improve judicial cooperation in criminal matters. This working group on criminal law also aims to provide a forum within which the above-mentioned debate can take place on ways of improving judicial cooperation. The work of this WG will focus on the preparation of a tool equivalent to the so-called “fiches belges” for the ENPI South partner countries.

This meeting is the last one of a series of 3 meetings devoted to this issue and will focus on the following issues:  Places - Visit and search: Visit to and search of homes. Visit and search on the site of an offence. Witnesses, victims, suspects - Summoning and hearing: Summoning witnesses. Hearing witnesses: standard procedure. Hearing witnesses: by video conference. Hearing witnesses: by telephone. Hearing children. Hearing persons collaborating with the inquiry. Hearing victims/plaintiffs; Hearing experts. Summoning suspects/persons accused. Hearing suspects/persons accused: standard procedure. Hearing suspects/persons accused: by video conference. Hearing suspects/persons accused: by telephone. Confrontation. Cross-border operations: Cross-border observation. Cross-border hot pursuit. Cross-border tracking (by placing a beeper on a vehicle or a person). Controlled deliveries. Joint investigation teams.