MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS. Chapter 1 General provisions
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS. The provisions of this Chapter are intended to supplement the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters of 20 April 1959 as well as, in relations between the Contracting Parties which are members of the Benelux Economic Union, Chapter II of the Benelux Treaty concerning Extradition and Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters of 27 June 1962, as amended by the Protocol of 11 May 1974, and to facilitate the implementation of those Agreements.
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS. Liechtenstein declares that tax offences being investigated by the Liechtenstein authorities may not give rise to an appeal before a court competent, inter alia, to hear criminal matters. (Time limit for accepting new developments in the Schengen acquis) The maximum time limit of eighteen months laid down in Article 5(2)(b) covers both the approval and the implementation of the act or measure. It includes the following stages: — the preparatory stage, — the parliamentary procedure, — the referendum deadline of thirty days, — where applicable the referendum (organisation and voting), — the sanctioning of the ruling prince. The Government of Liechtenstein shall inform the Council and the Commission without delay of the completion of each of the stages. The Government of Liechtenstein undertakes to use every means at its disposal to ensure that the abovementioned stages are completed as swiftly as possible. Liechtenstein undertakes to refrain from invoking its reservations and declarations made when ratifying the European Convention on Extradition of 13 December 1957 and the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters of 20 April 1959 in so far as they are incompatible with this Agreement. The European Community is currently establishing an External Borders Fund for the period 2007-13, for which further arrangements shall be concluded with the third countries associated with the Schengen acquis. When forwarding proposals relating to this Agreement to the Council of the European Union and to the European Parliament, the Commission shall forward copies of such proposals to Liechtenstein. Participation in Committees that assist the European Commission in the exercise of its executive powers: The Council authorised the Commission on 1 June 2006 to open negotiations with the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway, the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein with a view to concluding an agreement on the latters’ association with the work of the committees which assist the European Commission in the exercise of its executive powers as regards the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis. Until conclusion of such an agreement, the agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Council of the European Union and the Swiss Confederation on the committees that assist the European Commission in the exercise of its executive powers applies to Liechtenstein taking into account that as far as Direc...
MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx declares that tax offences being investigated by the Liechtenstein authorities may not give rise to an appeal before a court competent inter alia to hear criminal matters.
