Abstract
The legal effects of acts in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, adopted on the basis of the TEU prior to the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, are preserved until those acts are repealed, annulled or amended. There is still a considerable number of such acts in force. The article looks into what exactly these legal effects are today, distinguishing between four categories of such acts (framework decisions, decisions, implementing decisions and conventions); one of the legal effects looked at is the possibility of infringement procedures. Reference is made to a recent ECJ judgment which clarifies the legal effects of implementing decisions and rules that such decisions can still be adopted today, under certain procedural requirements.
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