Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University, Belgium.
J Forensic Leg Med. 2020 Aug;74:102021. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2020.102021. Epub 2020 Jul 20.
In coming to a European Forensic Evidence Area, an European Union ambition to be reached by 2020, judicial cooperation in criminal matters should be levelled-up. Grounded on the legal basis provided by the Lisbon Treaty, this research identifies the minimum standards to be developed by looking into the actions taken both from a legal and from a forensic-scientific perspective to standardise the collection, storage and use of forensic expert evidence. In examining the feasibility of such standards, primary sources of legislation, policy documents and case-law on a European level are compared with a comparative study of domestic norms in six jurisdictions. Depending on the phase in the chain of custody and fundamental principle involved, but also on the level of cooperation between the forensic and legal actors, it was noticeable that the comparison led to different conclusions, depending on the refusal grounds provided by the member states and the necessity of intervention at the European level to safeguard the underlying fundamental values.
迈向欧洲法医证据领域，这是欧盟到 2020 年要实现的目标，刑事事项司法合作应得到加强。本研究以《里斯本条约》提供的法律依据为基础，通过从法律和法医科学角度研究如何为法医专家证据的收集、储存和使用制定标准，确定需要制定的最低标准。在审查这些标准的可行性时，将欧洲一级的立法主要来源、政策文件和判例法与对六个司法管辖区国内规范的比较研究进行了比较。根据保管链的阶段和所涉及的基本原则，以及法医和法律行为者之间的合作程度，值得注意的是，根据成员国提供的拒绝理由以及在欧洲一级进行干预以维护基本核心价值的必要性，比较得出的结论也有所不同。
