On May 27, 2014, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) decided (not yet available in English) the Zoran Spasic case, holding that the rule found in Title III, Chapter 3, of the Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement (CISA), which restricts the application of the ne bis in idem principle to cases in which the penalty imposed in a Member State has been enforced or is actually in the process of being enforced, is not contrary to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. According to the press release, the Court considered that “[t]he enforcement condition laid down in the CISA does not call into question the ne bis in idem principle as such, since its only purpose is to avoid a situation in which persons finally convicted in a Member State go unpunished.”