Another approach is speeding up, simplifying, and improving mutual legal assistance. On one hand, new
European conventions on extradition and legal assistance emphasize technical developments and - above all
- modern methods of investigations while, on the other hand, the European Union has in recent years
created a number of personally bound (individual-dependent) institutions. These are, in the field of justice:
the Liaison Magistrates; the European Judicial Network (EJN); and, in order to raise legal co-operation to
the same level as that of the police and create a counterpart to the European Police Office (Europol),
Eurojust, which is the subject of this paper.