Conditions of detention

13.7.2012

Question for written answer E-007035/2012
to the Commission
Rule 117
Carmen Romero López (S&D)

The ‘Roadmap for strengthening procedural rights of suspected or accused persons in criminal proceedings’, endorsed by the Justice Council on 30 November 2009, provided for a series of measures concerning fundamental procedural rights to be adopted in a step-by-step approach; and the Commission was called upon to submit the necessary proposals.

Measure F of the Roadmap took the form of a Green Paper on pre-trial detention. The Commission published the Green Paper on 14 June 2011, thus launching a public consultation, in which civil society was asked for information serving to gauge the extent to which differences in national laws on conditions of detention can make themselves felt in terms of mutual recognition and judicial cooperation.

What measures will the Commission take in response to the public consultation that began with the publication of the Green Paper?

Within what time-frame does it intend to act?

OJ C 219 E, 31/07/2013