Judgment_paragraph 29 · Criminal proceedings against VB and VB (C-430/22)

29Finally, it is important to recall that Directive 2016/343 is concerned solely with laying down common minimum rules and, therefore, does not provide for an exhaustive harmonisation of criminal procedure. That said, the rules laid down by national law cannot undermine that directive’s aim of safeguarding the fairness of the proceedings and thus of enabling the person concerned to be present at the trial, pursuant to Articles 8 or 9 of that directive (see, to that effect, judgment of 19 May 2022, Spetsializirana prokuratura [(Trial of an absconded accused person), C‑569/20, EU:C:2022:401, paragraph 43).

Criminal proceedings against VB and VB (C-430/22)

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