The objects and reasons of this Bill are the transposition into written law of the provisions of Directive (EU) 2016/343 of the European Parliament and the Council of the 9 March 2016 on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and of the right to be present at the trial in criminal proceedings and the amendment of the Drug Dependence (Treatment of Imprisonment) Act for the purpose of complying with a judgement of the Constitutional Court in respect of the possibility for a court of appellate jurisdiction to assume the functions of a Drugs Court and to make some other minor amendments to that law.