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The gradual denaturalization of confiscation in the European Union [Recurso eletrónico] : between effectiveness and a departure from criminal law foundations / Miguel Álvarez Hernández
Católica Law Review, Lisboa, Vol. 9, n.º 3 (Novembro 2025), p. 73-102
Artigo desenvolvido no âmbito do projeto de investigação PID2022-138775NB-I00, financiado pelo MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ e pelo Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional - FEDER (European Regional Development Fund - ERDF). Ficheiro de 388 KB em formato PDF.
CONFISCO DE BENS, RECUPERAÇÃO DE ACTIVOS, DIRECTIVA COMUNITÁRIA, DIREITO PENAL, UNIÃO EUROPEIA
1. Context: the development of EU’s competences to regulate confiscation and the growing importance of asset recovery in the EU policy. Introduction. 1.1. The flourishing competences of the EU in the matter: ambiguity from the root. 1.2. Different confiscation regulations up to date. 2. Denaturalization as way of overcoming inefficiency: analysing the different kinds of confiscation. 2.1. Preliminary considerations: key aspects of the ECHR case law on confiscation. 2.2. Extended confiscation and unexplained wealth confiscation: denaturalization through reducing the standard of proof. 2.3. Third-party confiscation: what about the rights of the affected persons? 2.4. Non-conviction-based confiscation: moving away from the criminal procedure as the way to overcome the difficulty to reach a conviction. 3. Concluding remarks: strategic ambiguity and the challenge to criminal law foundations. Bibliography.
