„СЛОБОДНО КРЕТАЊЕ“ ДОКАЗА У КРИВИЧНОМ ПОСТУПКУ
„FREE MOVEMENT” OF EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

Summary/Abstract: One of the current and important issues of criminal procedural law is a matter of accepting evidence gathered abroad and оf their possible use in criminal proceedings. In this paper, author analyzed a tendency within European Union, as an organization of which member the Republic of Serbia aspires to become, of extending the effect of the principle of mutual recognition of decisions on the collection of evidence in criminal matters with cross-border elements and establishing of a regime of „free movement”, or „import/export” of evidence between Member States. In this sense, the articles of the Directive on the European Investigation Order (EIO) were critically analyzed, as an instrument of crossborder collection of evidence for the purposes of criminal proceedings. Although the solutions contained in the Directive imply a degree of automaticity in the execution of the EIO as a consequence of the principle of mutual recognition of decisions, we believe that such automatism can not exist with regard to the admissibility of evidence, as whether or not the court in one State accepts evidence obtained through the warrant in other State depends on free assessment of evidence – otherwise, it would constitute a solution introducing elements of the legal assessment of evidence.

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