Brussels, 07/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - Litigants to whom a final judgment of no case to answer has been handed down in one member state of the EU cannot be criminally prosecuted for the same case in another member state by virtue of the principle of “ne bis in idem”. However, if new charges are brought, the procedure can be reopened and, if this is the case, it must be opened in the state where the non-suit decision was returned.
This is the interpretation suggested to the European...