Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 10/05/2023

Subject: According to the Court, Framework Decision 2008/675/JHA on taking account of convictions in the Member States of the European Union in the course of new criminal proceedings does not preclude legislation of a Member State which permits a court of that State, seised, in the context of new criminal proceedings instituted against a person who has been subject to a final conviction to a sentence, accompanied by a probationary suspension, previously handed down in another Member State for different facts and not yet executed fully, of a request for execution of that conviction, to revoke that suspension and order the effective execution of that sentence, provided that the said conviction has been forwarded to and recognised in the Member State conducting the new criminal proceedings, in accordance with Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments and probation decisions with a view to the supervision of probation measures and alternative sanctions

Classification: Justice - Art. 49 Criminal Law

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