U.S. and EU Conclude Mutual Assistance and Extradition Agreements

On July 19, 2003, the European Union published in the EU Official Journal the texts of the European Union-United States Agreement on extradition and mutual assistance which were signed on June 25, 2003 in Washington, D.C. during the most recent EU-US summit. Although these agreements were concluded in the context of counter-terrorism enforcement efforts in the aftermath of the terrorist incidents of September 11, 2001, they have enormous implications for the investigation and prosecution of a broad range of criminal and administrative penal cases. The next issue of the IELR will discuss these instruments in more detail … [more]