Extradition treaty
An extradition agreement is a treaty under international law between two states or associations of states (e.g. the EU) on the extradition of a suspect who is wanted by an arrest warrant in the other country .
Extradition agreements are regularly bilateral in nature. An extradition agreement regulates the criminal offenses and the expected punishment for which a suspect is extradited.
An example of an important extradition agreement is the agreement signed between the European Union and the United States in June 2003 , which was replaced by a new agreement in October 2009. According to the new agreement, suspects from an EU country will only be extradited to the United States if they do not face the death penalty there. For cases in which no agreement with the country exist, regulates, for example, in Germany the law on international legal assistance in criminal matters in, Austria , the Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance Act and in Switzerland , the Mutual Legal Assistance Act the procedure.
Web links
- Text of the Austrian Federal Act of December 4, 1979 on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Extradition and Legal Assistance Act - ARHG)
- Text of the Swiss federal law on international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jens Witte: EU and USA sign new extradition agreement. In: Spiegel Online . Klaus Brinkbäumer, October 29, 2009, accessed on August 20, 2017 : "The EU has enforced that suspects it has extradited cannot be sentenced to death in the USA."
