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"en.20111212.17.1-185-000"2
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"Mr President, in a European Union in which the right to a fair trial and to a defence has been laid down in not one, but two instruments – firstly in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and secondly in the European Convention on Human Rights – one should be able to assume that people are informed of their rights in criminal proceedings as a matter of course. With eight million criminal trials taking place annually across Europe, the bureaucracy alone was unlikely to be able to keep up with increased mobility. However, the situation has improved considerably since the Commission became aware of the problem of EU citizens not being informed in another Member State of their basic fundamental rights in a language they can understand. In some countries the information is given only verbally; in others it is given in writing in such complex language – legalese you might call it – that unless you have a legal background you would hardly understand any of it, even in your own mother tongue. It is therefore to be welcomed if information on rights is now to be provided in the EU languages in written form and in accessible language – not just so as to save on interpreting costs, but also because this simple measure could help to prevent judicial errors, which is a good thing."@en1
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