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Statewatch analysis: The UK’s planned ‘block opt-out’ from EU justice and policing measures in 2014 by Steve Peers

17 October 2012

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The UK government announced on 15 October 2012 that it intended in principle to take up the option to opt-out from all EU policing and criminal law measures adopted before the Treaty of Lisbon, with effect from 1 December 2014, but then to opt back in to some of these measures. This analysis looks in detail at the legal framework and practical implications of the government’s intentions.

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