Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 01/11/2017

Subject: The Court, interpreting Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in the European Union, affirmed that the condition of double criminality must be considered to be met where the factual elements underlying the offence, as reflected in the judgment handed down by the competent authority of the issuing State, would also, per se, be subject to a criminal sanction in the territory of the executing State if they were present in that State

Parties: Grundza

Classification: Justice - Art. 49 Criminal Law

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