Type: Opinions of Advocat General

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 05/10/2016

Subject: According to Advocate General, in order to ensure respect for Article 19(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in the individual circumstances of the person who is the subject of an extradition request, the judicial authority of the requested Member State, when faced with evidence of the existence of deficiencies which may be systemic or generalised, or which may affect certain groups of people that is objective, reliable, specific and properly updated, is bound to determine whether, in the particular circumstances of the case, there are substantial grounds to believe that, following his extradition to the requesting third State, that citizen of the Union will run a real risk of being subject in that State to inhuman or degrading treatment, within the meaning of that provision

Parties: Petrulhhin

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 19 Extradition

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