RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 As diretivas de garantias processuais da União Europeia, em especial a diretiva (UE) 2016/343 do parlamento Europeu e do conselho de 9 de março de 2016, relativa ao reforço de certos aspetos da presunção de inocência e do direito de comparecer em julgamen A1 Au-Yong Oliveira, Alexandre A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid AB This article gives a general overview of the EU procedural safeguard directives and of legal instruments of Portugal and Spain that transposed them. It points out common objectives, grounds and concepts of the Directives in the legal and institutional framework of the EU, underlining the principle of mutual recognition and related needs for the harmonization of domestic laws. It addresses some of the tensions implied in the protection of fundamental rights from a national perspective, the principles of primacy unity and effectiveness of EU Law, the European Convention on Human Rights, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and of the Court of Justice. It then concentrates its analysis on some important aspects of the Directive (EU) 2016/343 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 of March, on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and of the right to be present at the trial in criminal proceedings. It analyses a) the objective and subjective scope of the Directive; b) the minimum procedural safeguards concerning trials “in absentia” when compared to the European Arrest Warrant Framework Decision; c) the effects of the non-regression clause in the scope of this Directive. SN 1132-7170 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40794 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40794 LA spa NO Revista de estudios europeos, 2019, Nº. Extra 1, (Ejemplar dedicado a: Cooperación judicial transfronteriza y garantías procesales). coord. por Coral Arangüena Fanego, Montserrat de Hoyos Sancho, p. 144-163 DS UVaDOC RD 26-abr-2024