The European Arrest Warrant

3. The opportunity to review and implement meaningful and necessary amendments and additions to the EaW Scheme has arrived with the Justice and Home affairs work programme (the Stockholm programme) having been adopted by the European Council in december and its implementation through the action plan under consideration. We noted in our briefing on the Commission ‘Communication on an area of freedom, security and justice: serving the citizen’ that there must be implementation and evaluation of all mutual recognition framework decisions that have been adopted prior to the development of additional prosecution focussed instruments.2 Where evaluation has taken place in which deficiencies are identified,