Mutual recognition of judicial decisions

The EU helps rehabilitate prisoners by allowing them to serve their sentence in their home country. To do this, it has set up a system to transfer prisoners back to the EU country they come from, the one they normally live in or with which they have close ties.

The judicial protection offered to a victim of violence and harassment can be enforced in other EU countries.

The principle of mutual recognition covers also the execution of financial penalties in cross-border cases by facilitating the enforcement of such penalties in a Member State other than the State in which the penalties are imposed.