The Member States 25 March 1957, Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union#PART THREE - UNION POLICIES AND INTERNAL ACTIONS#TITLE V - AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE#CHAPTER 4 - JUDICIAL COOPERATION IN CRIMINAL MATTERS#Article 83 (ex Article 31 TEU)

7.6.2016 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 202/80 Article 83 (ex Article 31 TEU) 1. The European Parliament and the Council may, by means of directives adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, establish minimum rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions in the areas of particularly serious crime with a cross-border dimension resulting from