{"id":1226,"date":"2019-08-09T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T11:40:13","slug":"judgment-of-the-echr-in-mihalache-v-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/judgment-of-the-echr-in-mihalache-v-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"Judgment of the ECHR in Mihalache v. Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> In&nbsp;<strong>Mihalache v. Romania&nbsp;<\/strong>(8.7.2019) a Grand Chamber of the ECHR had to determine whether a public prosecutor\u2019s order discontinuing criminal proceedings while imposing a fine on the applicant was a \u201cfinal acquittal or conviction\u201d triggering the application of the&nbsp;<em>non bis in idem&nbsp;<\/em>principle as laid down in Article 4 of Protocol No 7 to the Convention. In answering that question in the affirmative, the ECHR relied on a series of criteria (determination as to the merits, availability of ordinary remedies, expiry of the time-limit within which those remedies are to be used) which in substance coincide with those relied on by the CJEU in similar cases such as&nbsp;<em>Piotr Kossowski v. Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Hamburg<\/em>&nbsp;(C-486\/14). Only when a penalty has been imposed does EU law depart from Article 4 of Protocol No 7 in that Article 54 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement requires, as a condition for the application of the&nbsp;<em>non bis in idem&nbsp;<\/em>principle, that the penalty has been enforced, is in the process of being enforced or can no longer be enforced under the laws of the sentencing Member State (see&nbsp;<em>Spasic,&nbsp;<\/em>C-129\/14). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/MIHALACHE-v.-ROMANIA.pdf\">MIHALACHE-v.-ROMANIA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/MIHALACHE-v.-ROMANIA.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In&nbsp;Mihalache v. Romania&nbsp;(8.7.2019) a Grand Chamber of the ECHR had to determine whether a public prosecutor\u2019s order discontinuing criminal proceedings while imposing a fine on the applicant was a \u201cfinal acquittal or conviction\u201d triggering the application of the&nbsp;non bis in idem&nbsp;principle as laid down in Article 4 of Protocol No 7 to the Convention. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-court-of-human-rights","category-recent-case-law"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"de","enabled_languages":["en","de","fr"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}