Case C-182/15: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 6 September 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa — Latvia) — proceedings relating to the extradition of Aleksei Petruhhin (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Citizenship of the Union — Extradition to a third State of a national of a Member State who has exercised his right to freedom of movement — Scope of EU law — Protection of a Member State’s nationals against extradition — No protection for nationals of the other Member States — Restriction of freedom of movement — Justification based on the prevention of impunity — Proportionality — Verification of the guarantees provided for in Article 19 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union)
Date: 2016-09-06
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, European arrest warrant, European citizenship, extradition, free movement of persons, human rights, impunity, national, principle of proportionality, third country








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31.10.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 402/9





Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 6 September 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa — Latvia) — proceedings relating to the extradition of Aleksei Petruhhin
(Case C-182/15) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Citizenship of the Union - Extradition to a third State of a national of a Member State who has exercised his right to freedom of movement - Scope of EU law - Protection of a Member State’s nationals against extradition - No protection for nationals of the other Member States - Restriction of freedom of movement - Justification based on the prevention of impunity - Proportionality - Verification of the guarantees provided for in Article 19 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union))
(2016/C 402/10)
Language of the case: Latvian

Referring court

Augstākā tiesa

Parties to the main proceedings

Aleksei Petruhhin

Operative part of the judgment







1.


Article 18 TFEU and Article 21 TFEU must be interpreted as meaning that, when a Member State to which a Union citizen, a national of another Member State, has moved receives an extradition request from a third State with which the first Member State has concluded an extradition agreement, it must inform the Member State of which the citizen in question is a national and, should that Member State so request, surrender that citizen to it, in accordance with the provisions of Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States, as amended by Council Framework Decision 2009/299/JHA of 26 February 2009, provided that that Member State has jurisdiction, pursuant to its national law, to prosecute that person for offences committed outside its national territory.










2.


Where a Member State receives a request from a third State seeking the extradition of a national of another Member State, that first Member State must verify that the extradition will not prejudice the rights referred to in Article 19 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.






(1)  OJ C 205, 22.6.2015.