Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 01/31/2023

Subject: According to the Court, an executing judicial authority may not, in principle, refuse to execute a European arrest warrant on the basis that the court called upon to try the requested person in the issuing Member State does not have jurisdiction to do so. That authority must, however, refuse to execute that European arrest warrant if it finds that there are systemic or generalised deficiencies affecting the judicial system of that Member State and that the court called upon to try the requested person in that Member State clearly lacks jurisdiction

Parties: Puig Gordi e a.

Classification: Justice - Art. 49 Criminal Law

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