The Directive on the retention of data related to electronic communications has generated doubtswith regard to its compliance with the right to protection of privacy. This right is embodied in the constitutionsof EU member states, in the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms and in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The national implementation of this Directive wasquickly contested in some EU member states before the local constitutional courts. The constitutional courtsin Germany, Romania and in the Czech Republic repealed the implementation of the Directive precisely becauseof this disparity with the right to protection of privacy. In their new legislation on retention of data ontelecommunication operations, these states are trying to reconcile the conditions set out in the rulings of theconstitutional courts with the obligation to implement this Directive.
The paper deals with the implementation of the grounds for non-execution the European arrest warrant in the Slovak Republic. It is divided into four sections. While the first section deals with the mandatory grounds, the second section deals with the optional grounds. The third section analyses their implementation in the Slovak Republic and solves the question whether all ‘Slovak mandatory grounds for non-execution the European arrest warrant’ are really mandatory. The last fourth section introduces author’s considerations lex ferenda towards Slovak Act No. 154/2010 Coll. on the European Arrest Warrant.
The synoptic overview follows two lines of the core topic: life span development and the strategy of its research. The actual task is to design a life span development theory leading to the recognition and specification of individual development dynamics together with allocation of resources for growth, resilience and coping with losses. Ongoing empirical research point out how this general concept is tested in specific areas, such as cognitive processes, motor activity and emotionality. Is lifespan developmental psychology a special kind of developmental psychology, a general integrative ontogenetic concept, or is, is just one of the orientations in the current research of development? Arguments in current discussions are hinted. One of the main pretensions of life span development theory is to allocate a profile of biology- and culture-based sources of growth, resilience and coping with losses. Pluralism appears to be a general characteristic for changes of postmodernism in the concepts of diversity. The number of papers dealing with both positive and risk factors in the lifespan development context is increasing.