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Table of Contents: I. D’une procédure pénale nationale à une procédure pénale de l’Union européenne. – II. La proposition e-evidence: un compromis classique face à la diversité des procédures pénales au sein de l’Union européenne. – II.1. La fragmentation de la procédure pénale de l’Union européenne. – II.2. L’hétérogénéité des procédures pénales nationales. – III. La proposition e-evidence: une preuve de l’émergence d’une procédure pénale de l’Union européenne. – III.1. Une procédure pénale de l’Union européenne protectrice et efficace. – III.2. Une procédure pénale de l’Union européenne inexorablement entravée.
Abstract: The volatile nature of electronic evidences has compelled the Commission to launch a specific instrument on access to electronic evidence in cross-border investigations. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to comment on the e-evidence proposal which is currently being discussed between European institutions. Although the chosen method is classic, the subject matter is entirely new. Despite the existence of numerous European laws on the subject, the need for a new instrument is entirely explained by the unstable nature of electronic data. If this Regulation is adopted, it should have the effect of overcoming the diversity of Member States’ criminal procedural laws. In other words, this instrument will be superimposed on heterogeneous internal regulations, to be exclusively applied in a transnational context. This unprecedented adoption could be the beginning of a genuine European Union criminal procedural law, independent of Member States ones.
Keywords: European Union – criminal procedural law – e-evidence proposal – electronic evidence – mutual recognition – extraterritorial enforcement.
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European Papers, Vol. 6, 2021, No 1, pp. 423-439
ISSN 2499-8249 - doi: 10.15166/2499-8249/476
* Docteur, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, helene.christodoulou@ut-capitole.fr.
** Doctorante, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, laetitia.gaurier@ut-capitole.fr.
*** Docteur, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, alice.mornet@ut-capitole.fr.