Examples of using Extradition procedures in English and their translations into Danish
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The European arrest warrant, operational since January 2004,is intended to replace long extradition procedures.
Perhaps we might look back andrecall how extradition procedures were formerly very long, unwieldy and, in many respects, dependent on political decisions.
Article 11 shall be applied in the absence of bilateral treaty provisions authorising waiver of extradition or simplified extradition procedures;
Extradition procedures between Member States cannot, in practice, be extinguished without common minimal standards for procedural law in order to guarantee fundamental rights.
Secondly, the need for close collaboration in legal matters,notably with regard to collaboration in extradition procedures and the mutual recognition of judicial rulings.
In this respect, we must insist that the extradition procedures fall equally to the Spanish and British Governments and we should therefore address them both.
We have, for instance, the European arrest warrant,which created an EU-wide common understanding on terrorist crime and facilitated extradition procedures within the EU Member States.
Abolishing formal extradition procedures and adopting the principle of mutual recognition of decisions on criminal matters relating to terrorist offences.
I appeal to you, therefore, to support this resolution- which is also supported in the main by the Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs- for minimum guarantees in extradition procedures.
For the problems relating to extradition, two Conventions have been signed to simplify extradition procedures between the Member States of the European Union: one Convention was singed on 10 March 1995, the other was signed on 27 September 1996.
It has so far contributed to the extradition of almost 12 000 drug smugglers, child sex offenders, rapists and terrorists, andhas avoided lengthy extradition procedures in the process.
In the case of terrorist offences, the Council should immediately abolish formal extradition procedures and adopt the principle of mutual recognition of decisions on criminal matters, including pre-judgment decisions, as proposed in the report.
We can be satisfied with the endorsement of the European arrest warrant, a tool which will certainly be effective in legal terms in combating terrorism and international organised crime, replacing the complex,excessively bureaucratic extradition procedures.
My report therefore calls on the Council of Ministers to establish common minimal laws and penalties to counter terrorist acts,to abolish formal extradition procedures for those suspected or convicted of terrorist crimes and to establish a European search and arrest warrant in the fight against terrorist groups.
Its aim is to replace traditional extradition procedures with a straightforward system of surrendering criminals on the basis of a European arrest warrant because, since extradition is a procedural, cumbersome and complex process, it is no longer appropriate to an area without borders.
The legal instruments which will make this fight genuinely effective include the European arrest warrant, which will, at last, replace the complex andexcessively bureaucratic extradition procedures which have now become insufficient and inadequate for fighting crime, particularly international crime.
As regards extradition procedures to deal with terrorism we, like the speaker, regret that lack of clarity in the wording of the agreement, and lack of trust between Member States could mean that collaborating with or belonging to a terrorist group may not be covered by extradition. This would make no sense at all, in an area of freedom and democracy where there is no room for political crime.
The former proposal establishes common definitions of terrorist offences throughout the European Union so as to facilitate cooperation in criminal matters; the latter seeks to replace, in relations between Member States,the existing extradition procedures by a purely judicial mechanism oper ating within very strict time limits.
According to the Conclusions of the Tampere European Council of 15 and 16 October 1999, and in particular point 35 thereof,the formal extradition procedure should be abolished among the Member States in respect of persons who are fleeing from justice after having been finally sentenced and extradition procedures should be speeded up in respect of persons suspected of having committed an offence.
Simplified extradition procedure: OJ C 375.
Swedish initiative for a dec: provisions of the 1995 convention(simplified extradition procedure between Member States) and of the 1996 convention(extradition between Member Sutes)- developments of the Schengen acqui.
In March 1995, the Council drew up a first Convention on simplified extradition procedure between the Member States of the European Union.
Firstly, there are very few proposals to improve the handling of the extradition procedure.
It recommended, in particular, that the Member States step up the fight against terrorism andimplement the agree ments concluded at the Tampere European Council concerning the mutual rec ognition of judicial decisions in criminal matters and the simplification of extra dition procedures.
This decision seeks to associate Iceland andNorway with the application of the provisions of the Convention on simplified extradition procedure between the Member States of the European Union and certain provisions of the Convention relating to extradition between the Member States, constituting a development of the Schengen acquis.
For the purposes of achieving the objectives of the European Union, the Council established the Convention on simplified extradition procedure between the Member States of the European Union(3)(hereinafter"the Simplified Extradition Convention") and the Convention relating to extradition between the Member States of the European Union(4) hereinafter"the Extradition Convention.
Now we just have to wait for the agreement to be ratified by the Member States, by means of that complex procedure for which the third pillar is designed, and hope that they obey it in letter andin spirit, and that it will improve the extradition procedure, which is what we all hope.
So Germany is at the Center of this newest witchhunt, a fact we have known for a long time, but now apparently the country can reach the corners of the world with the extradition-craze which they are advancing frantically, under pretext of'Anti-terror' initiatives, andparticularly with this new fast-track extradition procedure of the'The European Arrest Warrant.
Determining which provisions of the 1995 Convention on simplified extradition procedure between the Member States of the European Union and of the 1996 Convention relating to extradition between the Member States of the European Union constitute developments of the Schengen acquis in accordance with the Agreement concerning the Republic of Iceland's and the Kingdom of Norway's association with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis.