The peculiarities of harmonization of national anti-terrorism legislations in the EU states today

Article is devoted to comparative legal study of national anti-terrorist units in the legislation of EU member states. The author analyzes the approaches used in member countries of the European Union, for the implementation of mandatory pan-European legal standards relating to combating terrorism. The article shows that all EU countries can be divided into three groups, within which different approaches to the implementation of domestic legislation European rules relating to the determination of the legal nature of the phenomena of «terrorism» and «international terrorism». Countries show the greatest national specificity anti-terrorism legislation, if they had the most developed character right before the Harmonization of the European process. The article concludes that, despite the fact that the law of the European Union is one of the most successful regional integration legal systems, in security in general and in criminal matters in particular, Member States retains a leading role in the fight against terrorism. European anti-terrorism law retains its national character.