Case C-504/24 PPU, Anacco: Order of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 September 2024 – (request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d’appello di Roma – Italy) – Criminal proceedings against RT (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Urgent preliminary ruling procedure – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice – Judicial cooperation in criminal matters – European arrest warrant – Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA – Article 1(3) – Article 4a – Surrender procedure between Member States – Grounds for optional non-execution – Article 48(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Rights of the defence – Directive 2012/13/EU – Article 6 – Right to information in criminal proceedings – Directive 2013/48/EU – Article 3 – Right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings – Decision rendered following a trial at which the accused person neither appeared nor was represented by a lawyer – National legislation not permitting refusal to surrender the person concerned – Compliance with EU law)
Date: 2024-09-20
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European arrest warrant, criminal proceedings, extradition, lawyer, right to information, rights of the defence








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C/2025/136


13.1.2025






Order of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 September 2024 – (request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d’appello di Roma – Italy) – Criminal proceedings against RT


(Case C-504/24 PPU,
                (1)
Anacco)
                (2)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Urgent preliminary ruling procedure - Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice - Judicial cooperation in criminal matters - European arrest warrant - Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA - Article 1(3) - Article 4a - Surrender procedure between Member States - Grounds for optional non-execution - Article 48(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Rights of the defence - Directive 2012/13/EU - Article 6 - Right to information in criminal proceedings - Directive 2013/48/EU - Article 3 - Right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings - Decision rendered following a trial at which the accused person neither appeared nor was represented by a lawyer - National legislation not permitting refusal to surrender the person concerned - Compliance with EU law)
(C/2025/136)
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Corte d’appello di Roma

Criminal proceedings against

RT

intervening party: Procura Generale della Repubblica presso la Corte d’appello di Roma

Operative part of the order

Article 4a 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, read in the light of Article 6 TEU and Article 47 and Article 48(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
must be interpreted as meaning that it does not preclude national legislation that does not allow the executing judicial authority to refuse to surrender the person concerned, pursuant to a European arrest warrant issued for the purpose of executing a custodial sentence imposed on that person in the issuing State, if that person did not appear in person at the trial resulting in the decision and was not represented by a lawyer appointed by him or her or by a lawyer appointed by the court, and if the conditions laid down in Article 4a(1)(d) are fulfilled.


(1)  OJ C C/2024/5408.

(2)  The name of the present case is a fictitious name. It does not correspond to the real name of any party to the proceedings.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/136/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)