Judgment_paragraph 32 · M (C-398/12)

32A decision which does not, under the law of the Contracting State which instituted criminal proceedings against a person, definitively bar further prosecution at national level cannot, in principle, constitute a procedural obstacle to the opening or continuation of criminal proceedings in respect of the same acts against that person in another Contracting State (Turanský EU:C:2008:768, paragraph 36).