ABSTRACT
The legally binding Framework Decision on the European A rrest W arrant tha t the Council of the European Union (EU) passed on 13 June 2002 (and w hich entered into force on 1 January 2004) is a telling instance of this need for cooperation. The Decision provides tha t terrorism is one of the offences for w hich arrest w arran ts can be issued in one of the Member States of the EU and expeditiously executed in another Member State (see Article 2(2)). Clearly, as far as terrorism is concerned, the Decision can be easily im plem ented as am ong Member States of the EU only because on the very same day the EU Council also adopted a legally binding Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism ,1 w hich in Article 1 contained a detailed definition of terrorist offences.2
