RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Interpretación y aplicación del derecho a la traducción de documentos esenciales por los tribunales penales en España A1 Vidal Fernández, María Begoña A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid AB In this study is analyzed the right to translation of essential documents in criminal proceedings in the European Union and for the execution of a European arrest warrant, as applied and interpreted by judicial case law. This guarantee is ruled in article 3 of the Directive 2010/64/UE, where is also expressed that its purpose, concerning the right of defense as well as safeguarding the fairness of the proceedings, is directed to the superior aim of facilitate mutual recognition of criminal decisions and criminal judicial cooperation in the European Union, by means of setting out minimum common standards of procedural rights. Although from the point of view of the right to a fair trial it is more important the right to interpretation, it is also more difficult to guarantee its effectiveness in real proceedings. From a practical point of view it’s found more useful to analyze the right to translation of essential documents in a deep and detailed way, with special attention to its more problematic and weak faces. SN 1132-7170 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40799 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40799 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. 79-96 DS UVaDOC RD 08-ene-2025