Council of the European Union and European Parliament 13 December 2011, Directive 2011/99/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the European protection order

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Directive 2011/99/EU establishes a mutual recognition mechanism whereby a judicial or equivalent authority in one Member State (the issuing State) may issue a European protection order enabling a competent authority in another Member State (the executing State) to continue, under its own national law, protection measures adopted in criminal matters against a person causing danger to a protected person's life, physical or psychological integrity, dignity, personal liberty, or sexual integrity. Key provisions govern the conditions for issuing and recognising a European protection order—limited to prohibitions on entering certain localities, contact, and proximity—as well as grounds for non-recognition, allocation of competence between issuing and executing States, and the obligation of the executing State to bear resulting costs. Member States were required to transpose the Directive by 11 January 2015, with Ireland and Denmark not participating by virtue of their respective Protocols to the Treaties.AI