Adapting Spanish law to the EU agency EurojustEurojust Agency of the European Union that coordinates cooperation between the judicial authorities of member states to investigate and prosecute serious crime.

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1. The law adapts the Spanish legal system to Regulation (EU) 2018/1727, which turns Eurojust into an agency of the European Union for criminal judicial cooperation, and repeals Law 16/2015, which previously regulated this area.
2. It regulates Spain's national member at Eurojust, along with a deputy and an assistant: selection requirements (fifteen years in the judiciary or the prosecutor's office for the national member and deputy, ten for the assistant), appointment by royal decree, and grounds for removal. In urgent cases, if the competent authority cannot be reached, the national member may act directly, with limits when fundamental rights are affected.
3. The national member, the deputy and the assistant may access public records, the Punto Neutro Judicial, the Schengen Information System, and request information from law enforcement under the same conditions as judges and prosecutors.
4. It regulates how to resolve jurisdictional conflicts when two EU states investigate or try the same person for the same acts: direct contact between authorities, response deadlines, and criteria for deciding which state takes the case, such as the place of the acts or the suspect's residence.
5. It regulates international judicial cooperation networks: the Ministry of Justice appoints the Spanish contact points, seeking a balanced presence of women and men, and sets the duties of their national coordinators.
6. The Government may create positions for liaison judges and justice counselors abroad, and liaison judges posted in the European Union and in IberRed become contact points for those networks.

Who it affects

• Judges, magistrates and prosecutors who want to become Spain's national member, deputy or assistant at Eurojust: They must pass a selection process with specific requirements.
• Courts and the Public Prosecutor's Office: They must send contact requests and answer those from other member states when there may be a jurisdictional conflict, and cooperate with Eurojust.
• Magistrates and prosecutors appointed as national correspondents for Eurojust: They will relay requests from the national member and support relations with Eurojust for a renewable five-year term.
• Contact points of international judicial cooperation networks: They will facilitate cooperation between judicial authorities of different states and send annual statistics.
• Liaison judges posted abroad: They become contact points of the European Judicial Network or IberRed.

Words worth knowing

Eurojust

Agency of the European Union that coordinates cooperation between the judicial authorities of member states to investigate and prosecute serious crime.

Conflicto de jurisdicción (jurisdictional conflict)

A situation where two or more states could try the same acts against the same person, and it must be decided which one will.

Miembro nacional (national member)

Spain's representative at Eurojust, who acts independently of the Ministry of Justice.

Magistrado de enlace (liaison judge)

A judge posted abroad to facilitate judicial cooperation between Spain and the country where they are posted.

Reconocimiento mutuo (mutual recognition)

A system under which a court decision from one EU state is enforced directly in the others.

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