Final Remarks
| Date | 01 December 2015 |
| Published date | 01 December 2015 |
| DOI | 10.1177/203228441500600420 |
| Subject Matter | Final Remarks |
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FINAL REMARKS
A O*
I would like to than k all the par ticipants and the Authorities who attended this
important conference; in par ticular t he President of the Court of Justice Vassiliou
Skouris (together with the Advocate General Mengozzi and Judge Bay Larsen), the
First Vice-President of the new European Commission, Frans Timmerma ns and
Professor Paola Severino, our host.
e end of these two days’ work represents the conclusion of one of the mai n
events in Italy’s program for the Presidency of t he Council of the European Union.
A remarkable new experience is t hat this Conference – which was possible than ks
to the nancing of the Europea n Commission and organised by t he Ministry of Justice
and the Libera Università degli Studi Sociali, w ith the participation of prestigious
representatives of the European a nd Italian Institutions, the Academic world and t he
Judiciary – was conceived in agreement with the two other Presidencies composing
the current “Trio”: those of Latvia and Lu xembourg.
Today’s conference is the rst step of an organised cycle composed of t wo other
events which will b e held in Riga and Luxembourg in 2015, all focused on t he role of
the Court of Justice w ithin the Area of Freedom, Security a nd Justice.
e choice of the theme of the present Conference was obviously i n uenced by the
quite peculia r institutional phase in which our Presidenc y is being held.
is year, which is close to its conclusion, was rst of all characterised by the
almost concomitant elect ions of the Parliament and t he Commission, the two
Institutions interlocutors of each Presidency. A renewal which made the preparation
of our works during the seme ster quite arduous. In these di cult conditions, I bel ieve
that Italy is performi ng its duties in the best possible way and we expect that by the
European Council of December concrete results in var ious dossiers, including data
protection and the Europea n Public Prosecutor’s O ce, which a re extremely delicate,
can be achieved.
2014, as we know, is also the year of another importa nt deadline, that is the end of
the transitiona l phase provided for by Protocol no. 36 to the Treaty of Lisbon. is
means that the considerable cor pus of legal instruments adopted before the entr y into
force of the Treaty in the eld of criminal judicia l and police cooperation wi ll be
* Italian Mi nister of Justice.
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