The main responsibilities and work of the Legal Affairs Unit, within the framework of the participation in the Working Groups in the EU concerns:

(a) Issues of Cooperation in the Sectors of Justice and Home Affairs (Chapter 24, Justice & Home Affairs) and in particular, issues of substantive criminal law and international legal and judicial cooperation in criminal and civil matters, including human rights issues, and

(b) Issues of Chapter 2 (Free Movement of Persons) and specific issues of cross-border practice of the legal profession.


Directives incorporated into Cypriot law concerning Criminal and European Arrest Warrant Proceedings

Other Directives recently incorporated into Cypriot law:

Framework Decisions

Also, in recent years the following Framework Decisions (Community tool which, which has been abolished, after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty) have been incorporated into the internal legal order, relating to judicial cooperation in the criminal field:

· Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in the European Union·
· Council Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments and probation decisions with a view to the supervision of probation measures and alternative sanctions·

· Council Framework Decision 2009/829/JHA of 23 October 2009 on the application, between Member States of the European Union, of the principle of mutual recognition to decisions on supervision measures as an alternative to provisional detention.