Inside Police Custody 2 62 recording, consider whether to propose an EU-wide standard regarding electronic recording of interrogations, in order to ensure that the rights of the suspected or accused person, and the role of the lawyer, are adequately protected. • The European Commission should enter into discussions with relevant member states in order to ensure that the right of access to a lawyer is not defeated or undermined by laws permitting the police to proceed with interrogations or informal interviews before a suspected or accused person who has exercised their right of access to a lawyer has, in fact, had such access. • Working with the relevant European professional bodies, the European Commission should seek to establish standards for admission to and the operation of duty lawyer schemes, and standards regarding training for lawyers who advise and assist detained suspected or accused persons (having regard to Article 7 of the Directive on the right to legal aid). With regard to training, the European Commission should publicise the training materials developed by the SUPRALAT project (available at http://www.salduzlawyer.eu/training/theoretical-materials/). • The European Commission should closely monitor the measures adopted for the purposes of transposition of the Directive on the right to legal aid, in order to ensure that schemes for applying a means test, and the arrangements for remunerating lawyers, do not undermine the obligation to make legal aid of an adequate quality available for suspected and accused persons who are detained during the course of criminal investigation.

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