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Setting common standards for all Member States on respecting and protecting the individual rights of suspects, defendants
or those convicted in criminal proceedings, as the Commission proposed in its Green Paper, would be useful. The laws must be understood and justice must be predictable and, as we know, an arbitrary approach will always result in unpredictable justice.
Furthermore, ignorance of the law is no excuse for not obeying it and does not benefit wrongdoers, who must know that criminal proceedings await them. This takes on even greater importance when the individual in question is a foreign citizen. I therefore agree with adopting common basic standards for procedural safeguards, which will increase the confidence both of the public in the judicial authorities and of the various agents of each Member State in other States’ judicial systems.
What has really turned me against this report – in its final wording – is that it promotes standards that far exceed the ‘minimum’, for example, the register of translators, ‘compensation’ in the event of insolvency or the presence of a psychiatrist. In other words, I disagree with the recommendation for an extremely lengthy list of changes, which would ultimately lead to better safeguards for foreign citizens than for nationals.
Unfortunately, therefore, I could only vote against the report."@en1
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