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Reticent information bans EAW surrender to Cyprus (Trento Court, /1/23)

Reticent and incomplete information about prison conditions  bans surrender in Cyprus investigative European Arrest warrant proceeding.  

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Greek executive EAW rejected, Chania has inhuman detention conditions (Trento Appellate Court, 2/23)

Greek executive EAW rejected, Chania prison has inhumane and degrading conditions due to overcrowding.

 

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EAW, furnishings and detention conditions in Greece (Cass.1317/23)

Furnishing space has to be deducted form individual space in detention: EAW rejected.

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EAW rules prevail on extradition rules in EU member states (Trento appellate court, 30.12.20022)

Who is arrested in extradition proceedings that should have been treated as a European arrest warrant has to be released.

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Need for questioning allows European Arrest warrant (Cass. 46577/22)

Poland's EAW for questioning defendant is legitimate under Italian law, and proportionality check for EIO is not necessary.

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Generic supplementary information in EAW proceeding? (Cass. 44015/22)

The executing judicial authority in European Arrest Warrant cases cannot rely on generic information of issuing authority.

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Greek EAW supplementary information are insufficient to ensure human dignity (Bologna Court, 32/22)

EAW to Greece should be rejected despite supplementary information regarding detention conditions. 

 

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Arrested for an European Arrest Warrant in Italy

Arrested in Italy for an European Arrest Warrant: information and defense.

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EPPO coordination prevents EAW denial due to pendency of domestic proceedings (Cass. 16561/22)

The optional refusal to execute an EAW due to the pendency of criminal proceedings for the same facts cannot be validly opposed when the protective order issued in the context of proceedings involving crimes under the jurisdiction of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO).

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EPPO evocation bans optional refusal ground of an EAW for pending criminal proceeding (Cass., 16561/22)

Evocation by EPPO bans EAW optional refusal ground of criminal investigation in the executing state. 

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Proportionality check in Polish EAW case (ITA Supreme Court 14937/22)

Plish EAW, fair trial is granted if there is no evidence of individual risk, but prportionality has to be checked.

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Protection of childhood in EAW: request for preliminary ruling (ITA Supreme Court, 15143/22)

Does  the EAW proceeding against a mother respect children and childhood? Preliminary ruling to Kirchberg.

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Is right to health a new EAW refusal ground? (Corte Costituzionale, 216/21)

Is right to health a new refusal ground of an EAW? Luxembourg will rule.

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Post Brexit extradition arrangments: the Italian way (It. Supreme Court, 34466/21)

Arrest warrants from the UK are formally governed by the provisions of the Agreement on trade and cooperation.

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Europe has common asylum standard: EAW for refugee (Cass. 9821/21)

International protection granted in Italy does not prevent EAW surrender to another EU country. 

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Italian European Arrest Warrant implementation law 

Italian law implementing FD 584/2002 JHA of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States (updated Feb 2021). Unofficial translation. 

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Does EAW respect right to health? Italian Constitutional Court will rule (Court Appeal Milan, Jan 2021)

An Italian Court questions the constitutionality of Italian national EAW transposition law, since nor the Framework Decision neither the implementation Law 69/2005 set out a specific ground for refusal based on the lack of compliance with fundamental rights, in particular with regard to an infringement of the fundamental right to human health and right to be given appropriate therapies, particularly in the area of mental diseases.

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Schengen Information System and European Arrest warrant in Italy

The existence of a specific alert in the SIS II authorises an immediate arrest of the wanted person by the police in Italy.

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SIS alert leads to arrest in Italy (ITA Supreme Court, 2018)
The law rules that the entry of a specific alert in the S. I. S. authorises an immediate arrest of the wanted person by the police.

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Italian cumulation order, speciality principle and EAW (Cass. 734/11)
On the subject of jurisdictional relations with foreign authorities, if, following a European arrest warrant, the extradited person is to be subjected to the execution of concurrent sentences considered as...