Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dzt6s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T22:57:07.731Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The European Court of Justice: Klaus Bourquain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Gerardo Badillo Hermoso*
Affiliation:
George Washington University

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
International Legal Materials
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

End notes

* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the European Law website: (visited March 10, 2009) <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:62007J0297:EN:HTML>

1 Press Release, The Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-297/07, No 24/08, Staatsanwaltschaft Regensburg v. Klaus Bourquain (Apr. 8, 2008).

2 Strafgesetzbuch [Penal Code], Nov. 13, 1998, BGBl. I at 3322, art. 78 (F.R.G.) [hereinafter StGB].

3 Martin Clausnitzer, The Statute of Limitations for Murder in the Federal Republic of Germany, 29 INT’L & COMP. L.Q. 475, 475-79 (1980).

4 Agreement between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Gradual Abolition of Checks at their Common Borders, June 14, 1985, 30 I.L.M. 68, 73 (text) 1991.

5 Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Gradual Abolition of Checks at their Common Borders, June 19, 1990, 30 I.L.M. 68, 84 (1991) [hereinafter CIS A].

6 Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community, Feb. 7, 1992, [1992] 1 C.M.L.R. 573, incorporating changes made by Treaty on European Union, Feb. 7, 1992, O.J. C 224/1 (1992), [1992] 1 C.M.L.R. 719, 31 I.L.M. 247 [hereinafter TEU]. The TEU, supra, amended the Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community, Mar. 25,1957,298 U.N.T.S. 11, 1973, as amended by Single European Act, O.J. L 169/1 (1987) ,[1987] 2 C M L R 741.

7 Treaty of Amsterdam Amending the Treaty on European Union, the Treaties Establishing the European Communities and Certain Related Acts, Oct. 2, 1997, 1997 O.J. (C 340) 1 (1997).

8 Council Decision 1999/435/EC, art. 1(2), 1999 O.J. (L 176) 1, 2 (EC).

9 CISA, supra note 5, art. 54.

10 In this case, the requirement of the military French code to capture Bourquain and to subject him to new proceedings.

11 Case C-436/04, Hof van Cassatie van België v. Léopold Henri and van Esbroeck, 2006 E.C.R. I-2333 (Mar. 9).

12 Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA, 2002 O.J. (L 190/1)(EC), available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2002:190:0001:0018:EN:PDF.

* Language of the case: German.