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"Judicial cooperation on criminal matters should be based on mutual trust between Member States, based on the principle of mutual recognition of sentences and court judgments. While detention conditions and prison management remain essentially the responsibility of the Member States, mutual trust can only be maintained if there is respect for standards relating to rules on fundamental rights, and if there is an effort towards approximation of the rights of suspected and accused persons and of procedural rights in criminal proceedings.
There are huge differences in detention conditions between Member States: prison overcrowding, large numbers of pre-trial detainees, inhuman and degrading treatment, number of deaths and suicides, etc. In some cases they are even below the acceptable threshold, not only jeopardising judicial cooperation on EU criminal matters, but also raising concerns in terms of protection of fundamental rights. This has a negative impact on mutual trust between Member States, leading a judicial authority in one Member State to show reluctance, or even refuse, to implement a decision made in another Member State. I hope the Commission will quickly table an initiative on establishing common minimum standards and I call on the Member States to take the measures urgently needed in order to ensure respect for detainees’ fundamental rights."@en1
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