ABOUT
The European Probation Software compendium
A reference on how each Member State's law gives effect to Council Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA — the instrument under which a suspended sentence, a conditional sentence, an alternative sanction or a decision on conditional release passed in one Member State can be supervised in another, so that a sentenced person can serve it where they actually live.
What a fact sheet contains
Each one follows the questionnaire the Member States answered, in four parts.
1 — Judgements and probation decisions
The national decisions that fall within Article 2: what each one is, its legal basis, the conditions for imposing it, the obligations it can carry, and the authorities that impose, supervise and act on breach.
2 — Article 4(1) measures
How each of the eleven probation measures listed in the Framework Decision appears in national law, together with any measures the State applies that the list does not cover.
3 — Electronic monitoring
Whether it is a probation measure in itself, a way of executing imprisonment, or a condition of release; the technology used and who may be subject to it.
4 — Formalities
The documents the competent authorities need in order to recognise a judgement and take over supervision.
How to read the coverage panel
Every fact sheet opens with two rows of tiles. They answer different questions and carry different weight.
Types of decision (Article 2)
Four headings, showing how many measures this fact sheet records under each. Every measure carries a classification, so this is a straightforward count of the record. An empty heading means nothing was recorded there — not that the State has no such decision.
Measures listed in Article 4(1)
Eleven tiles, one per measure, showing whether this fact sheet answers the question, answers it by pointing to the measures in Section 1, or leaves it blank. Select a tile to read the answer.
The tiles describe the national reply, not the law. This alpha states only what each fact sheet records; whether a measure is available in a given Member State is a reading of the answer, and is left to you.
What each section does
Compare
Two to six Member States side by side, row by row. Each row is a dimension of the Framework Decision — a type of decision, or one of the eleven measures — and opening it sets the national answers next to each other in the correspondents' own words. Set one State as the reference, usually the issuing one, and the cells that differ from it are marked.
Fact sheets
One Member State at a time, in full: the four sections of the questionnaire, the measures it records, and what its law says about each of the eleven Article 4(1) measures. The place to read rather than scan.
Search
Find a measure across every published fact sheet, by name or through the full text of the definitions, conditions and obligations. Filter by Member State or by type of decision, and go straight from a result to the measure in its fact sheet.
Matrix
Every published fact sheet in one grid, twenty rows by fifteen columns. It shows where answers exist and where they do not, which makes it the fastest way to spot an outlier or a gap. Open a cell for one answer, or a column heading for the same measure across all States.
Where the corpus stands
What this is not
A working reference, not legal advice and not an authoritative statement of national law. The replies are written by national correspondents and rendered here without alteration, which means they carry the gaps and the phrasing of the original. Before relying on anything here, check the transposing act itself and the notifications lodged with the Council; a measure described in a reply may have been amended since it was written.
Where an answer cross-refers to another part of the fiche, the relevant passages are quoted alongside it for convenience. Those quotations are located automatically and are shown with their source named, so they can be checked against the full entry.
SEARCH
Find a measure across the Union
Search the names of national measures, and the text describing what they are and what obligations they can carry, across every published fact sheet.