Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] The EU and the FIA get into a spat

Source: 
grandprix.com
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns12396.html
The European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs has had a run-in
with the FIA over the European Arrest Warrant problems. The FIA President
Max Mosley has asked the various governments to look at the legislation
and allow for Formula 1 to be exempted from the European Arrest Warrant
because of the eccentric laws of manslaughter in Italy.
But a spokesman for Antonio Vitorino, European commissioner for Justice
and Home Affairs, told AFP that the Formula 1 circus cannot be considered
above the law.
"Mr Mosley is not above the law and the European Arrest Warrants apply to
all citizens," said Pietro Petrucci. "The debate has been closed for some
time and technically impossible to reopen. Formula 1 chiefs are waking up
too late. In any case we don't see why we would have made an exception
and why we shouldn't have confidence in the justice system."
The FIA responded waspishly.
"Mr Vitorino is clearly unaware that one EU government has already
confirmed that the relevant provisions of the European Arrest Warrant do
not apply to sport. We anticipate that other EU governments will agree.
"No F1 team considers itself above the law but they will not race where
they do not feel safe. Mr Vitorino may not understand this but those who
apply EU laws do."
At the moment only Britain, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal and Spain have
implemented the law. The others will have to do so by May after which EU
countries will no longer be able to refuse to surrender their own
nationals, since the warrant is based on the principle that all EU courts
are the same, which is clearly not the case. Many countries in Europe do
not have Habeas Corpus and under Italian law, the "preliminary hearing"
to establish if there is a case to answer will be held behind closed
doors and might not take place for six months or longer if prosecutors
want to complete their
investigations. Throughout this the people charged would remain in jail.
They may be released provisionally, but the decision on bail will be
taken by the investigating judges and not in a public hearing.
æ Italy's Constitutional Court has ruled that the continued existence of
measures devised by Mussolini's Fascist
government in the 1930s to crush political opposition is still acceptable
even thought people can be arrested in Italy for simply associating with
people.
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 apply EU laws do."
Non si considerano sopra la legge, purché la legge non li riguardi... Mi
sembra giusto....
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 sembra giusto....
No, non e' tanto cosi' ma:"Non siamo sopra la legge, ma non andiamo a
portare soldi alle nazioni che non ci trattano bene". E' una minaccia,
neanche tanto velata.
Ciao,
Luca

 neanche tanto velata.
La richiesta iniziale però è che la legge preveda una "scappatoia", o
comunque un'eccezione, per quanto riguarda la loro attività....
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