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Public Prosecutor's Office is not a judicial authority empowered to issue a European arrest warrant, according to Advocate General

Brussels, 30/04/2019 (Agence Europe)

The Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, in his Opinion of Tuesday 30 April in Joined Cases C-508/18 and C-82/19 PPU and Case C-509/18, considered that the Public Prosecutor's Office cannot be qualified as an “issuing judicial authority” authorised to issue a European arrest warrant. 

In these cases, the Irish Supreme Court and the Irish High Court ask the Court whether the public prosecutors of Lübeck and Zwickau in...