Committee launches follow-up inquiry on post-Brexit security cooperation
3 March 2023
The Justice and Home Affairs Committee is launching a short follow-up inquiry into post-Brexit arrangements for UK-EU cooperation on law enforcement and criminal justice. In its first session, the Committee will focus on UK-EU extradition arrangements, with evidence from lawyers and prosecutors.
- Watch the evidence session
- Inquiry: Post-Brexit UK-EU security cooperation – follow up
- Report: Beyond Brexit: policing, law enforcement and security
- Government response: Beyond Brexit: policing, law enforcement and security
- Justice and Home Affairs Committee
Background
The Justice and Home Affairs Committee is conducting a short inquiry into the current operation of the arrangements for cooperation on law enforcement and criminal justice introduced by Part Three of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). This inquiry will follow up on the report of the EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee of the former EU Select Committee, “Beyond Brexit: policing, law enforcement and security” (published on 26 March 2021).
In this first evidence session, the Committee will hear from UK and European lawyers, representing both defence and prosecution. This session will focus in particular on the operation of the TCA’s provisions for extradition between the UK and the EU, which replace the European Arrest Warrant.
Witnesses
Tuesday 7 March, Committee Room 4, Palace of Westminster
At 10am
- Rebecca Niblock, Partner, Kingsley Napley
- Élise Martin-Vignerte, member of the Advisory Board, European Criminal Bar Association
- Joanne Jakymec, Head of International, London and South-East Division, Crown Prosecution Service
Possible topics
Possible areas of questioning in this session include:
- The effectiveness in practice of the extradition arrangements introduced by the TCA;
- The impact of the ‘nationality exception’, under which 10 EU Member States have ceased to extradite their own nationals to the UK;
- The impact of the UK’s loss of access to the Schengen Information System (SIS II) on the new extradition arrangements;
- The operation of the TCA’s provisions for Mutual Legal Assistance;
- The consequences of a scenario where Part Three of the TCA was terminated, for instance as a result of the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.